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Title Living on death row : the psychology of waiting to die / edited by Hans Toch, James R. Acker, and Vincent Martin Bonventre.
Publisher Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2018.
Copyright date ©2018



Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
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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.
ISBN 9781433829017 (electronic bk.)
1433829010 (electronic bk.)
9781433829000
1433829002
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Subject Death row -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
Criminal psychology -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Alt author Toch, Hans, editor.
Acker, James R., 1951- editor.
Bonventre, Vincent Martin, editor.
Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
ISBN 9781433829017 (electronic bk.)
1433829010 (electronic bk.)
9781433829000
1433829002
Subject Death row -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
Criminal psychology -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Alt author Toch, Hans, editor.
Acker, James R., 1951- editor.
Bonventre, Vincent Martin, editor.

Subject Death row -- United States.
Death row inmates -- United States.
Criminal psychology -- United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Descript 1 online resource (xxiii, 372 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier 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.
Acker, James R., 1951- editor.
Bonventre, Vincent Martin, editor.
ISBN 9781433829017 (electronic bk.)
1433829010 (electronic bk.)
9781433829000
1433829002

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