Abstract
Trauma expert Judith Herman (Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Basic Books, New York, 2015) explained, ‘If one set out by design to devise a system for provoking intrusive post-traumatic symptoms, one could not do better than a court of law.’
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
American Bar Association. 2003. “ABA Guidelines for the Appointment and Performance of Defense Counsel in Death Penalty Cases.” Hofstra Law Review 31: 913–1090.
Ayers, Tim, Irwin Sandler, Stephen West, and Mark Roosa. 1996. “A Dispositional and Situational Assessment of Children’s Coping: Testing Alternative Models of Coping.” Journal of Personality 64(4): 923–958.
Baldus, David C., George Woodworth, and Charles A. Pulaski. 1990. Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: A Legal and Empirical Analysis. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England.
Beck, Elizabeth, Sarah Britto, and Arlene Andrews. 2007. In the Shadow of Death: Restorative Justice and Death Row Families. New York: Oxford University Press.
Beck, Elizabeth, and Sandra Jones. 2007. Children of the Condemned: An Exploration of Loss. Omega Journal of Death and Dying 56: 191–215.
Beck, Elizabeth, Brenda Sims Blackwell, Pamela Leonard, and Michael Mears. 2003. “Seeking Sanctuary: Interviews with Family Members of Capital Defendants.” The Cornell Law Review 88: 382–418.
Becker, Diane, and Faith Margolin. 1967. “How Surviving Parents Handled Their Young Children’s Adaptation to the Crisis of Loss.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 37(4): 753–757.
Bedau, Hugo. 1997. The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bordere, Tashel. 2017. “Disenfranchisement and Ambiguity in the Face of Loss: The Suffocated Grief of Sexual Assault Survivors.” Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Studies of Applied Family Studies 66(1): 29–45.
Bruce, Elizabeth J., and Cynthia L. Schultz. 2001. Nonfinite Loss and Grief: A Psychoeducational Approach. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks.
Bureau of Statistics. 2013. “Bureau of Justice Statistics.” U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs.
Compas, Bruce E. 1987. “Coping with Stress During Childhood and Adolescence.” Psychological Bulletin 101(3): 393–403.
Davis, Angela J. 2007. “Racial Fairness in the Criminal Justice System: The Role of the Prosecutor.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 39: 202–232.
Doka, Kenneth J. 1989. Disenfranchised Grief: Recognizing Hidden Sorrows. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
DPIC. n.d. “Death Penalty Information Center.” https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/.
Foster, Holly, and John Hagan. 2007. “Incarceration and Intergenerational Social Exclusion.” Social Problems 54(4): 399–433.
Hairston, Creasey Finney. 2007. Focus on the Children with Incarcerated Parents: An Overview of the Research Literature. Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Herman, Judith. 2015. Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. New York: Basic Books.
Johnson, Robert. 2016. “Solitary Confinement Until Death by State Sponsored Homicide: An Eighth Amendment Assessment of the Modern Execution Process.” Washington and Lee Law Review 73(3), Article 7, Summer 6-1: 1213–1242.
Johnston, Denise. 1995. “Effects of Parental Incarceration.” In Children of Incarcerated Parents, edited by Katherine Gabel and Denise Johnston, 89–100. New York: Lexington Books.
Jones, Sandra, and Elizabeth Beck. 2007. “The Role of Disenfranchised Grief and Nonfinite Loss in the Psychological Distress of Family Members of Death Row Inmates.” Omega Journal of Death and Dying 54: 281–299.
Joy, Sandra. 2014. Grief, Loss, and Treatment for Death Row Families: Silent No More. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
King, Rachel. 2005. Capital Consequences: Families of the Condemned Tell Their Stories. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Koniaris, Leonidas, Teresa Zimmers, David Lubarsky, and Jonathan Sheldon. 2005. “Inadequate Anesthesia in Lethal Injection for Execution.” Lancet 365: 1412–1414.
Parke, Ross D., and K. Alison Clarke-Stewart. 2003. “The Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children: Perspectives, Promises, and Policies.” In Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities, edited by Jeremy Travis and Michelle Waul. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press.
Phillips, Susan, Alaattin Erkanli, Gordon Keeler, Jane Costello, and Adrian Angold. 2006. “Disentangling the Risks: Parent Criminal Justice Involvement and Children’s Exposure to Family Risks.” Criminology and Public Policy 5(4): 677–702.
Rando, Therese A., ed. 2000. Clinical Dimensions of Anticipatory Mourning: Theory and Practice in Working with the Dying, Their Loved Ones, and Their Caregivers. Champaign, IL: Research Press.
Rando, Therese. 2012. Coping with the Sudden Death of Your Loved One: Self-Help for Traumatic Bereavement. Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing.
Romanoff, Bronna, and Marion Terenzio. 1998. “Rituals and the Grieving Process.” Death Studies 22(8): 697–711.
Sharp, Susan F. 2005. Hidden Victims: The Effects of the Death Penalty on Families of the Accused. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Shucksmith, Mark, and Pollyanna Chapman. 1998. “Rural Development and Social Exclusion.” Sociologia Ruralis 38(2): 225–242.
Snyder-Joy, Zoann K., and Teresa A. Carlo. 1998. “Parenting Through Prison Walls: Incarcerated Mothers and Children’s Visitation Programs.” In Crime Control and Women: Feminist Implications of Criminal Justice Policy, edited by Susan Miller, 130–150. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Steiker, Carol S. 2002. “Things Fall Apart but the Center Holds: The Supreme Court and the Death Penalty.” New York University Law Review 77(6): 1475–1477.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Joy, S., Beck, E., Hurley, A. (2019). The Traumatic Bereavement of Children Experiencing the Loss of a Loved One to Death Row. In: Hutton, M., Moran, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Prison and the Family . Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12744-2_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12744-2_9
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-12743-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-12744-2
eBook Packages: Law and CriminologyLaw and Criminology (R0)