Margaret E Leigey

The Forgotten Men

Serving a Life Without Parole Sentence

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Produktbeschreibung

In The Forgotten Men, criminologist Margaret E. Leigey provides an insightful account of a group of inmates sentenced to life without parole. Imprisoned for at least twenty years, with virtually no chance of release, these men make up one of the most marginalized segments of the U.S. prison population. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-five such prisoners, Leigey describes how they struggle to construct meaningful lives and provides a much-needed analysis of the policies behind life-without-parole sentencing.   

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813569475
• ISBN-10: 0813569478
• Artikelnr.: 41750259

Autorenporträt

Leigey, Margaret E

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Death by Incarceration
Acknowledgments
1  The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated
2  The Forgotten
3  The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment
4  Coping with Permanent Incarceration
5  Growing Old in Prison
6  Forgotten No More
Appendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of Respondents
Appendix B: Researching the Forgotten
Notes
References
Cases
Index