Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the AccusedRutgers University Press, 16/06/2005 - 248 páginas "Sharp’s book reemphasizes the tremendous costs of maintaining the death penalty—costs to real people and real families that ripple throughout generations to come."—Saundra D. Westervelt, author of Shifting the Blame: How Victimization Became a Criminal Defense "Everyone concerned with the effects of capital punishment must have this book."—Margaret Vandiver, professor, department of criminology and criminal justice, University of Memphis Murderers, particularly those sentenced to death, are considered by most to be unusually heinous, often sub-human, and entirely different from the rest of us. In Hidden Victims, sociologist Susan F. Sharp challenges this culturally ingrained perspective by reminding us that those individuals facing a death sentence, in addition to being murderers, are brothers or sisters, mothers or fathers, daughters or sons, relatives or friends. Through a series of vivid and in-depth interviews with families of the accused, she demonstrates how the exceptionally severe way in which we view those on death row trickles down to those with whom they are closely connected. Sharp shows how family members and friends—in effect, the indirect victims of the initial crime—experience a profoundly complicated and socially isolating grief process. Departing from a humanist perspective from which most accounts of victims are told, Sharp makes her case from a sociological standpoint that draws out the parallel experiences and coping mechanisms of these individuals. Chapters focus on responses to sentencing, the particular structure of grieving faced by this population, execution, aftermath, wrongful conviction, family formation after conviction, and the complex situation of individuals related to both the killer and the victim. Powerful, poignant, and intelligently written, Hidden Victims challenges all of us—regardless of which side of the death penalty you are on—to understand the economic, social, and psychological repercussions that shape the lives of the often forgotten families of death row inmates. |
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... the death penalty on families of the accused / Susan F. Sharp p. cm. — (Critical issues in crime and society) ... Capital punishment—United States. 2. Death row inmates—United States—Family relationships. 3. Prisoners' families—United ...
... Death Row Marriages The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited Conclusion Appendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/ Family Visits) vii xi xv 1 17 3 24 4 48 85 100 7 6 5 111 8 142 162 178 185 Appendix B. Interview Schedule for ...
... the death penalty as a deterrent, or as a way to save taxpayers' money, or as a penalty justified by biblical ... capital punishment. Instead, in recent decades the prime (or even sole) justification has become retribution: they deserve ...
... capital punishment often cry that the offender needs to be executed as a way of assisting the family of the murder ... the death penalty, Professor Sharp's work invites us to wonder if executing 1 percent of murderers is the best way ...
... the death penalty, but if so, at least we will have a better idea of what our executioners are doing, and the nature and consequences of our public policies. Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have ...
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Dealing with the Horror Were Sentenced Too Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence | 17 |
Trying to Cope Withdrawal Anger and Joining | 24 |
The Grief Process Denial and Horror the BADD Cycle Bargaining Activity Disillusionment and Desperation | 48 |
Facing the End Families and Execution | 85 |
Aftermath Picking Up the Pieces | 100 |
But Hes Innocent | 111 |
Double Losers Being Both a Victims Family Member and an Offenders Family Member | 131 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Death Row Visitation Policies | 185 |
Interview Schedule for Initial Interviews | 187 |
Demographics of Interview Subjects | 189 |
Notes | 193 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Index | 219 |
About the Author | 225 |
Family after the Fact Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages | 142 |
The Death Penalty and Families Revisited | 162 |
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