Contributor
Toch, Hans, editor.
ImprintWashington, DC : American Psychological Association, [2018]
Descriptionxxiii, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Foreword / Jamie Fellner -- Introduction / Hans Toch, James R. Acker, Vincent Martin Bonventre -- I. Overview of death row conditions. Rethinking classification, programming, and housing for death row inmates / Jeanne Woodford -- Waiting alone to die / Terry A. Kupers -- Lessons in living and dying in the shadow of the death house : a review of ethnographic research on death row confinement / Robert Johnson, Gabe Whitbread -- II. Legal and policy issues. Death row solitary confinement and constitutional considerations / Fred Cohen -- The failure of a security rationale for death row / Mark D. Cunningham, Thomas J. Reidy, Jonathan R. Sorensen -- Execution "volunteers" : psychological and legal issues / Meredith Martin Rountree -- III. Concepts of time on death row. Psychological survival in isolation : tussling with time on death row / Ian O'Donnell -- Time on death row / Bruce Jackson, Diane Christian -- Spending time on death row : a case study / Gareth Evans, Eleanor Price, Amy Ludlow, Ruth Armstrong, Shadd Maruna, with Jonathan Reed --IV. Stories of surviving death row and postexoneration trauma. Once numbered among the dead, now I live! / Joe D'Ambrosio with Rev. Neil Kookoothe -- "Dreaming that I'm swimming in the beautiful Caribbean Sea" : one man's story on surviving death row / Charles S. Lanier -- Continuing trauma and aftermath for exonerated death row survivors / Saundra D. Westervelt, Kimberly J. Cook -- Appendix. Rethinking death row : variations in the housing of individuals sentenced to death / the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale Law School.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Prisoners on death row spend 22 or more hours a day alone in cramped, barren cells. They have little to do except wait to die--without knowing if it will happen in days or decades. This extreme isolation combined with the omnipresent fear of death takes a severe psychological toll that is unnecessary, inhumane, and--in the eyes of many--unconstitutional. In this book, Hans Toch, James R. Acker, and Vincent Martin Bonaventre present wide-ranging, scholarly perspectives from psychologists, legal professionals, and criminologists along with compelling personal accounts from prison administrators and actual death row inmates. Together, they reveal the systemic, physical, and moral conditions that define and underlie death row, as well as the humanity of death row inmates who struggle to find meaning amid a lack of human contact, physical activity, and mental stimulation. This book represents an urgent call to action for researchers, policymakers, and all those who seek criminal justice reform." --Book cover.
