In the Shadow of Death

Elizabeth Beck, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Georgia State University. Her work has been in the areas of community practice and forensic social work and is currently examining restorative justice in a community context. She has consulted on numerous capital cases and has been asked to serve as an expert in state and federal cases, and conducts trainings for capital defense lawyers in several states, at the national level, and for the federal system. She is presently on the board of the Alternative Sentencing and Mitigation Institute, Inc. Sarah Britto, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law and Justice at Central Washington University. Her primary research areas are crime and the media, violent crime, and restorative justice. She has focused on media stereotypes and how media consumption influences fear of crime, punitive attitudes, attitudes toward the police, and public policy. She sees restorative justice as a way to understand andaddress both the problems that lead to crime and the consequences of crime. Arlene Bowers Andrews, Ph.D., is Professor in the College of Social Work and Director of the Institute for Families in Society at the University of South Carolina. She is particularly interested in how families adapt to chronic turbulence in their lives. Her work has emphasized development and evaluation of community systems of care and state policy development for children's mental health. She has served as an expert witness regarding mitigation in state and federal courts.

• Introduction to Book: Part One: The Shadow of Death: 1: Why do Offenders' Families Matter? 2: Understanding Restorative Justice 3: Meet the Families Part Two: Storytelling: 4: Death Penalty Trials 5: "You Didn't Punish Him, You Punished Me" 6: Children of the Condemned 7: Psychological Distress of Family Members, and Family Systems Part Three: Restorative Justice: 8: Life is Different: Living with Outcomes other than the Death Sentence 9: Organizing for Abolition 10: Reaching Out 11: Systems Failure 12: Shining Light in the Shadows

"The staggering toll of human misery that unfold in these pages is more than sobering; it is terrifying. The authors' plea for restorative justice that runs through their book is reassuring; it shows that there are constructive strategies and tactics within our reach if only the will and the funding are available to implement them."--Hugo Adam Bedau, Austin Fletcher Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Tufts University, and editor of The Death Penalty in America: Current Controversies