TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westervelt,Saundra D.
AU  - Cook,Kimberly J.
TI  - Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity 
T2  - Critical Issues in Crime and Society
SN  - 9780813553832
AV  - HV8699.U5 W47 2012
U1  - 364.660973 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Death row inmates
KW  - United States
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Services for
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - False imprisonment
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Deinstitutionalization
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; Preface --; Part One. Setting the Stage --; Part Two. Struggling with Life after Exoneration --; Part Three. Coping with Innocence --; Part Four. Doing Justice --; Epilogue --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Authors; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813553399
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