Disenfranchised grief and nonfinite loss as experienced by the families of death row inmates

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 281-299

  Jones, Sandra Jonessa ^a   Beck, Elizabeth ^b  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DENIAL; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MALE; PRISONER; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; ANGER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAPITAL PUNISHMENT; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMANS; MALE; PRISONERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548453217     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/A327-66K6-P362-6988     Document Type: Article

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