LEADER 05070nam 22007574a 450 001 9910171019103321 005 20240516204724.0 010 $a1-280-46285-X 010 $a9786610462858 010 $a0-8135-3787-8 010 $a0-8135-3584-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537870 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246485 035 $a(EBL)977458 035 $a(OCoLC)806204720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000083537 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12015844 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000083537 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10147511 035 $a(PQKB)11634564 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000170739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153512 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000170739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10225009 035 $a(PQKB)11773555 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977458 035 $a(OCoLC)64187837 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8096 035 $a(DE-B1597)529311 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537870 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977458 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10114305 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL46285 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246485 100 $a20040902d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHidden victims$b[electronic resource] $ethe effects of the death penalty on families of the accused /$fSusan F. Sharp 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (243 p.) 225 1 $aCritical issues in crime and society 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3583-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 207-217) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a"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. 410 0$aCritical issues in crime and society. 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States 606 $aDeath row inmates$zUnited States$xFamily relationships 606 $aPrisoners' families$zUnited States 615 0$aCapital punishment 615 0$aDeath row inmates$xFamily relationships. 615 0$aPrisoners' families 676 $a362.82/9 700 $aSharp$b Susan F.$f1951-$0967194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910171019103321 996 $aHidden victims$92195693 997 $aUNINA