Hidden victims the effects of the death penalty on families of the accused /
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
c2005.
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| Series: | Critical issues in crime and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners
- Dealing with the horror : "we're sentenced, too"
- Trying to cope: withdrawal, anger, and joining
- The grief process : denial and horror, the BADD cycle (bargaining, activity, disillusionment and desperation)
- Facing the end : families and execution
- Aftermath : picking up the pieces
- "But he's innocent--" : dealing with wrongful accusations and convictions
- Double losers : being both a victim's family member and an offender's family member
- Family after the fact : fictive kin and death row marriages
- The death penalty and families, revisited
- Conclusion.