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Life After Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society) - Softcover

Book 21 of 48: Critical Issues in Crime and Society

Westervelt, Saundra D.; Cook, Kimberly J.

 
9780813553825: Life After Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813553822 ISBN 13: 9780813553825
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated.

Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook present eighteen exonerees’ stories, focusing on three central areas: the invisibility of the innocent after release, the complicity of the justice system in that invisibility, and personal trauma management. Contrary to popular belief, exonerees are not automatically compensated by the state or provided adequate assistance in the transition to post-prison life. With no time and little support, many struggle to find homes, financial security, and community. They have limited or obsolete employment skills and difficulty managing such daily tasks as grocery shopping or banking. They struggle to regain independence, self-sufficiency, and identity.

Drawing upon research on trauma, recovery, coping, and stigma, the authors weave a nuanced fabric of grief, loss, resilience, hope, and meaning to provide the richest account to date of the struggles faced by people striving to reclaim their lives after years of wrongful incarceration.

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About the Author

SAUNDRA D. WESTERVELT is an associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is the coeditor of Wrongly Convicted: Perspectives on Failed Justice (Rutgers University Press).

 KIMBERLY J. COOK is a professor and chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is the author of Divided Passions: Public Opinions on Abortion and the Death Penalty.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813553822
ISBN 13 
9780813553825
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
280