Wounds That Do Not Bind

by Acker, James R.; Karp, David Reed

• ISBN13: 9781594600807
• ISBN10: 1594600805
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press

Summary

This volume presents perspectives of murder victims' family members, academics, and crime victims' advocates regarding an intensely debated issue about which surprisingly little information exists: the significance of capital punishment to murder victims' survivors. The book includes more than twenty chapters that examine a variety issues concerning these survivors, or co-victims, and the death penalty. These chapters present the personal accounts of victims' family members' experiences with the criminal justice system and examine relevant legal and research issues, including the use of victim impact evidence in capital trials, how the capital punishment process affects co-victims, what is known about the immediate and long-term needs of murder victims' survivors, and how those needs can be addressed.

Author Biography

James R. Acker is a professor at the University of Albany School of Criminal Justice (State University of New York).David Reed Karp is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Skidmore College.

Table of Contents

Introduction
James R. Acker and David R. Karp	3	(14)
PART I PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: THE EXPERIENCES OF CO-VICTIMS OF MURDER, OTHER CRIME VICTIMS, AND VICTIM ADVOCATES
Chapter 1 Matters of Life or Death
Charisse Coleman	17	(16)
Chapter 2 Feelings from the Heart
Dan Levey	33	(16)
Chapter 3 A Tiger by the Tail: The Mother of a Murder Victim Grapples with the Death Penalty
Linda L. White	49	(20)
Chapter 4 The Death Sentence: For Criminals or Victims?
Shane Wagner	69	(16)
Chapter 5 Building a Bridge
David Kaczynski and Gary Wright	85	(18)
Chapter 6 Accidental Death Is Fate, Murder Is Pure Evil
Stanley and Phyllis Rosenbluth	103	(8)
Chapter 7 Finding Hope: One Family's Journey
Roberta Roper	111	(16)
Chapter 8 My Journey and the Riddle
Marsha Kimble	127	(14)
PART II LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 9 Causing Death and Sustaining Life: The Law, Capital Punishment, and Criminal Homicide Victims' Survivors
James R. Acker and Jeanna Marie Mastrocinque	141	(20)
Chapter 10 Victims, Survivors, and the Decisions to Seek and Impose Death
Wayne A. Logan	161	(18)
Chapter 11 Extinguishing the Victims' Payne or Acquiescing to the "Demon of Error": Confronting the Role of Victims in Capital Clemency Proceedings
Charles S. Lanier and Beau Breslin	179	(24)
Chapter 12 Putting a Square Peg in a Round Hole: Victims, Retribution, and George Ryan's Clemency
Austin Sarat	203	(32)
PART III RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 13 The Death Penalty and the Families of Victims: An Overview of Research Issues
Margaret Vandiver	235	(18)
Chapter 14 Secondary Victimization among Families of Homicide Victims: The Impact of the Justice Process on Co-Victims' Psychological Adjustment and Service Utilization
Mark D. Reed and Brenda Sims Blackwell	253	(22)
Chapter 15 Their Day in Court: The Role of Murder Victims' Families in Capital Juror Decision Making
David R. Karp and Jarrett B. Warshaw	275	(22)
Chapter 16 Victim Characteristics and Victim Impact Evidence in South Carolina Capital Cases
Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey, and Martin T. Wells	297	(26)
Chapter 17 Is Restitution Possible for Murder? Surviving Family Members Speak
Judith W. Kay	323	(26)
Chapter 18 Facilitated Dialogue on Death Row: Family Members of Murder Victims and Inmates Share Their Experiences
Mark S. Umbreit, Betty Vos, Robert B. Coates and Katherine A. Brown	349	(30)
PART IV POLICY IMPLICATIONS: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, CRIMINAL JUSTICE PRACTICES, AND VICTIM SERVICES
Chapter 19 Reaching Out to the Other Side: Defense-Based Victim Outreach in Capital Cases
Tammy Krause	379	(18)
Chapter 20 Learning from Homicide Co-Victims: A University-Based Project
Michael L. Radelet and Dawn Stanley	397	(14)
Chapter 21 The Process of Healing and the Trial As Product: Incompatibility, Courts, and Murder Victim Family Members
Peter Loge	411	(20)
Chapter 22 The Impact of the Death Penalty on Crime Victims and Those Who Serve Them
Carroll Ann Ellis, Karin Ho and Anne Seymour	431	(14)
Index	445