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Death row -- United States.
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Death row inmates -- United States.
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Criminal psychology -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Descript |
1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages) |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
I. Overview of death row conditions -- Rethinking classification, programming, and housing for death row inmates -- Waiting alone to die -- Lessons in living and dying in the shadow of the death house: A review of ethnographic research on death row confinement -- II. Legal and policy issues -- Death row solitary confinement and constitutional considerations -- The failure of a security rationale for death row -- Execution "volunteers": Psychological and legal issues -- III. Concepts of time on death row -- Psychological survival in isolation: Tussling with time on death row -- Time on death row -- Spending time on death row: A case study -- IV. Stories of surviving death row and postexoneration trauma -- Once numbered among the dead, now I live! -- "Dreaming that I'm swimming in the beautiful Caribbean Sea": One man's story on surviving death row -- Continuing trauma and aftermath for exonerated death row survivors. |
Alt author |
Toch, Hans, editor.
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Acker, James R., 1951- editor.
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Bonventre, Vincent Martin, editor.
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ISBN |
9781433829017 (electronic bk.) |
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1433829010 (electronic bk.) |
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9781433829000 |
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1433829002 |
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