SUSAN F. SHARP is David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology and is affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty fellow with the College of Liberal Studies, the Department of Human Relations, and the Organizational Leadership Program. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1996. Her research focuses on female crime and deviance, the incarceration of women, and the impact of corrections policies on families of offenders. Her recent research has focused on theoretical explanations of female criminal behaviors from a life course perspective, exploring how multiple marginalities may steer women into criminal and/or deviant behaviors. She has served on the executive board of the American Society of Criminology and was the founding editor of Feminist Criminology, the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.Dr. Sharp’s current research focuses on jail diversionary programs for female offenders.

Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Colorado

• Foreword by Michael L. RadeletPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Death Penalty, Victims' Families, and Families of Prisoners2. Dealing with the Horror: "We're Sentenced, Too": Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence3. Trying to Cope: Withdrawal, Anger, and Joining4. The Grief Process: Denial and Horror, the BADD Cycle (Bargaining, Activity, Disillusionment, and Desperation}5. Facing the End: Families and Execution6. Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces7. "But He's Innocent"8. Double Losers: Being Both a Victim's Family Member and an Offender's Family Member9. Family after the Fact: Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages10. The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited11. ConclusionAppendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/Family Visits)Appendix B. Interview Schedule for Initial InterviewsAppendix C. Demographics of Interview SubjectsNotesBibliographyIndex

SUSAN F. SHARP is David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology and is affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty fellow with the College of Liberal Studies, the Department of Human Relations, and the Organizational Leadership Program. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1996. Her research focuses on female crime and deviance, the incarceration of women, and the impact of corrections policies on families of offenders. Her recent research has focused on theoretical explanations of female criminal behaviors from a life course perspective, exploring how multiple marginalities may steer women into criminal and/or deviant behaviors. She has served on the executive board of the American Society of Criminology and was the founding editor of Feminist Criminology, the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.Dr. Sharp’s current research focuses on jail diversionary programs for female offenders.

Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Colorado

• Foreword by Michael L. RadeletPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Death Penalty, Victims' Families, and Families of Prisoners2. Dealing with the Horror: "We're Sentenced, Too": Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence3. Trying to Cope: Withdrawal, Anger, and Joining4. The Grief Process: Denial and Horror, the BADD Cycle (Bargaining, Activity, Disillusionment, and Desperation}5. Facing the End: Families and Execution6. Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces7. "But He's Innocent"8. Double Losers: Being Both a Victim's Family Member and an Offender's Family Member9. Family after the Fact: Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages10. The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited11. ConclusionAppendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/Family Visits)Appendix B. Interview Schedule for Initial InterviewsAppendix C. Demographics of Interview SubjectsNotesBibliographyIndex

SUSAN F. SHARP is David Ross Boyd Professor of Sociology and is affiliate faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also a faculty fellow with the College of Liberal Studies, the Department of Human Relations, and the Organizational Leadership Program. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas-Austin in 1996. Her research focuses on female crime and deviance, the incarceration of women, and the impact of corrections policies on families of offenders. Her recent research has focused on theoretical explanations of female criminal behaviors from a life course perspective, exploring how multiple marginalities may steer women into criminal and/or deviant behaviors. She has served on the executive board of the American Society of Criminology and was the founding editor of Feminist Criminology, the official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology.Dr. Sharp’s current research focuses on jail diversionary programs for female offenders.

Without denying the horror of the crimes that most death row inmates have committed or the need for confinement of those inmates, Sharp raises the question of whether Americans would still support the death penalty if they understood the full range of its consequences. It is a sobering question that readers of this book will be forced to ponder. -from the foreword by Michael L. Radelet, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Colorado

• Foreword by Michael L. RadeletPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Death Penalty, Victims' Families, and Families of Prisoners2. Dealing with the Horror: "We're Sentenced, Too": Families of Individuals Facing a Death Sentence3. Trying to Cope: Withdrawal, Anger, and Joining4. The Grief Process: Denial and Horror, the BADD Cycle (Bargaining, Activity, Disillusionment, and Desperation}5. Facing the End: Families and Execution6. Aftermath: Picking Up the Pieces7. "But He's Innocent"8. Double Losers: Being Both a Victim's Family Member and an Offender's Family Member9. Family after the Fact: Fictive Kin and Death Row Marriages10. The Death Penalty and Families, Revisited11. ConclusionAppendix A. Death Row Visitation Policies (Social/Family Visits)Appendix B. Interview Schedule for Initial InterviewsAppendix C. Demographics of Interview SubjectsNotesBibliographyIndex