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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... loss of a loved one? Sometimes the effects do not emerge for years after the execution. Just last week I received a phone call from a twenty-eight-year-old man in Texas whose father was executed in Florida a dozen years ago. He never ...
... loss of a relative. However,“They must also live with the humiliation and stigma of being related to a person deemed so vile that he had to be exterminated.”28 At certain stages in the capital punishment process, a relative's case may ...
... subsequent chapters. Families of those facing a death sentence, of course, are not the only ones affected by crime. Families of victims are certainly traumatized. Suddenly faced with the shock and pain of their loss, Hidden Victims 8.
... loss, they know that a murderer deprived them of a chance to say good-bye, and they may agonize over their family member's suffering. But the criminal justice process and the media circus that surrounds the death penalty often make ...
... loss and of dealing with the criminal justice system with increased anger or depression.36 The family of the person facing execution experiences many of the same negative consequences. If the arrested relative was employed, they suffer ...
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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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