Life after Death Row: Exonerees' Search for Community and Identity

by Kimberly J. Cook and Saundra D. Westervelt

Book Overview

Life after Death Row examines the post-incarceration struggles of individuals who have been wrongly convicted of capital crimes, sentenced to death, and subsequently exonerated.

Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook present eighteen exonerees' stories, focusing on three central areas: the invisibility of the innocent after release, the complicity of the justice system in that invisibility, and personal trauma management. Contrary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813553822
• ISBN13: 9780813553825
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary