RT Article
T1 "Mom, they are going to kill my dad!": a personal narrative on capital punishment from a convict criminology perspective
JF Critical criminology
VO 22
IS 3
SP 389
OP 401
A1 Williams, D. J.
A1 Bischoff, Debra
A1 Casey, Teresa
A1 Burnett, James Gilbert
A2 Bischoff, Debra
A2 Casey, Teresa
A2 Burnett, James Gilbert
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1850737681
AB Capital punishment, although opposed by numerous scholars and banned in several countries, continues to be practiced in many locations under a popular rationale associated with retributive justice. While there has been extensive debate on this issue for decades among scholars, policymakers, correctional professionals, and the media; other important voices, specifically the voices of family members of executed convicts, have been ignored or discounted. Situated within a convict criminology perspective, this paper focuses on a personal narrative of how the issue of capital punishment was experienced by the partner (second author of this paper) of an executed convict. This narrative powerfully illustrates complexities and unintended social injustices toward family members that can occur from capital punishment.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 400-401
K1 Capital Punishment
K1 Criminal Behavior
K1 Criminal Justice System
K1 Personal Narrative
K1 Restorative Justice
DO 10.1007/s10612-014-9242-7