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Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with
violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in
their cases. Using in-depth interviews with 21 crime victims across
the United States, Cook reveals how homicide victims’ family
members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the
primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and
trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful
convictions and exonerations. Important lessons and analyses are
shared related to grief and loss, and healing and repair. Using
restorative justice practices to develop and deliver healing
retreats for survivors also expands the practice of restorative
justice. Finally, policy reforms aimed at preventing, mitigating,
and repairing the harms of wrongful convictions is covered.
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed
approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the
lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this
volume explore our authors' who have each had close personal
encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized
oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As
scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field,
these lived experiences with crime and criminal justice have shaped
their research, teaching, and advocacy work. Their voices represent
experiences that are intersectional, mult-igenerational, global,
trauma-informed and resiliency focused. They are deliberately and
decidedly anti-racist, and their experiences acknowledge the harm
that has resulted from institutionalized and structural trauma.
Most importantly, their stories are grounded in their lived
experiences. This volume offers survivor criminology as a radical
act of hope. Our hope comes from the belief that a trauma-centered
approach to crime, justice, and healing provides the opportunity
for criminology to expand its theoretical and methodological roots.
We see this work as transformative for the discipline - for
students, scholars, members of the community, and policy-makers.
"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 to popular belief, exonerees are not
automatically compensated by the state or provided adequate
assistance in the transition to post-prison life. With no time and
little support, many struggle to find homes, financial security,
and community. They have limited or obsolete employment skills and
difficulty managing such daily tasks as grocery shopping or
banking. They struggle to regain independence, self-sufficiency,
and identity.Drawing upon research on trauma, recovery, coping, and
stigma, the authors weave a nuanced fabric of grief, loss,
resilience, hope, and meaning to provide the richest account to
date of the struggles faced by people striving to reclaim their
lives after years of wrongful incarceration.
Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the
growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship.
DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars
with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major
branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical
criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive
topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime.
Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews
of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of
work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the
field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which
have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of
international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain
to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social
scientific work in this field.
Advancing Critical Criminology constitutes a timely addition to the
growing body of knowledge on critical criminology scholarship.
DeKeseredy and Perry have assembled a volume that provides scholars
with an in-depth review of the extant literature on several major
branches of criminology as well as examples of how critical
criminologists apply their theoretical perspectives to substantive
topics, such as drugs, interpersonal violence, and rural crime.
Accordingly, this work is divided into two main sections: overviews
of theories and applications. Each chapter provides a summary of
work in a specific area, along with suggestions for moving the
field forward. This reader is unique in its choice of topics, which
have often been overlooked in the past. An expert collection of
international scholars, Advancing Critical Criminology is certain
to stimulate lively debates and generate further critical social
scientific work in this field.
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