What happens to individuals who have been wrongly convicted of a capital crime after they are exonerated and released? Sociologist Saundra Davis Westervelt examines how they cope
AbstractA problem exists for ex-convicts who are undergoing re-assimilation: their career options ar...
Death is a universal human catalyst that when put into contact with any cultural order, precipitates...
In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court overturned its ruling in Furman v. Georgia and held that the ...
Kennedy Brewer spent 13 years behind bars — seven on death row — for the rape and murder of a 3-year...
We adapt the victimology of ‗state harms ‘ framework outlined by Kauzlarich et al. (Critical Crimino...
Only a few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of wrongful conviction; several ...
This research seeks to explore the various difficulties in convicted felons’ life after their transi...
Saundra Westervelt and Kimberly Cook have done a great service by asking this question and by explor...
Background: Exonerees are individuals who have been wrongfully convicted of a crime. Later found inn...
Since 1973 a total of 114 innocent persons sentenced to death in 25 states have been exonerated and ...
Soon after release, mandatory lifers are on a ‘mission’ to reconstruct their lives: at the heart of ...
Scholars studying wrongful convictions have long examined their causes and the ways in which to prev...
It is impossible to imagine being accused of a crime you did not commit. Worse, it is even harder to...
Measured in executions, the death penalty in the USA is declining. Yet, under that shadow, death sen...
In 1982, Yohannes Johnson was convicted for the murder of Errol Blackwood. He has spent the last 40 ...
AbstractA problem exists for ex-convicts who are undergoing re-assimilation: their career options ar...
Death is a universal human catalyst that when put into contact with any cultural order, precipitates...
In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court overturned its ruling in Furman v. Georgia and held that the ...
Kennedy Brewer spent 13 years behind bars — seven on death row — for the rape and murder of a 3-year...
We adapt the victimology of ‗state harms ‘ framework outlined by Kauzlarich et al. (Critical Crimino...
Only a few studies have investigated the psychological consequences of wrongful conviction; several ...
This research seeks to explore the various difficulties in convicted felons’ life after their transi...
Saundra Westervelt and Kimberly Cook have done a great service by asking this question and by explor...
Background: Exonerees are individuals who have been wrongfully convicted of a crime. Later found inn...
Since 1973 a total of 114 innocent persons sentenced to death in 25 states have been exonerated and ...
Soon after release, mandatory lifers are on a ‘mission’ to reconstruct their lives: at the heart of ...
Scholars studying wrongful convictions have long examined their causes and the ways in which to prev...
It is impossible to imagine being accused of a crime you did not commit. Worse, it is even harder to...
Measured in executions, the death penalty in the USA is declining. Yet, under that shadow, death sen...
In 1982, Yohannes Johnson was convicted for the murder of Errol Blackwood. He has spent the last 40 ...
AbstractA problem exists for ex-convicts who are undergoing re-assimilation: their career options ar...
Death is a universal human catalyst that when put into contact with any cultural order, precipitates...
In Gregg v. Georgia, the Supreme Court overturned its ruling in Furman v. Georgia and held that the ...