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Hidden victims : the effects of the death penalty on families of the accused /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharp, Susan F., 1951-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2005]
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
Subjects:
Capital punishment > United States.
Death row inmates > United States > Family relationships.
Prisoners' families > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the death penalty, victims' families, and families of prisoners
  • Dealing with the horror: "we're sentenced, too": families of individuals facing a death sentence
  • 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"
  • 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.