Saundra D. Westervelt & Kimberly J. Cook, Life After Death Row: Exonerees’ Search for Community and Identity

Authors

Jeanne Subjack, Sam Houston State University

Abstract

"Life After Death Row examines how individuals wrongly sentenced to death adjust to life after their release. The idea for the book arose in 2009, after Westervelt and Cook attended a conference and learned about the different aspects related to wrongful convictions that had yet to be addressed in academia. To gain a more thorough understanding of the events the participants experienced, the authors used life history and feminist methods to conduct their research. Although the current analysis is not necessarily focused on gender, feminist methods are useful here because they can be applied when a researcher “seeks an understanding of participants as whole people with often conflicting beliefs and feelings . . .” (pp. 21-22). The authors are able to gain insight into some of the more complex relationships and issues that exist by combining this methodology as a supplemental tool for life history methods."

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Recommended Citation

Subjack, Jeanne (2013) "Saundra D. Westervelt & Kimberly J. Cook, Life After Death Row: Exonerees’ Search for Community and Identity," Qualitative Criminology (QC): Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/qc/vol1/iss1/9