Title: Hidden victims : the effects of the death penalty on families of the accused /
Authors: Sharp, Susan F., 1951-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Capital punishment United States; Death row inmates United States Family relationships.; Prisoners' families United States; Death row inmates Family relationships United States.
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.