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• catalog abstract ""This much anticipated second edition of Robert Johnson's Death Work offers a frank and unsettling look at the consequences of the death penalty in the United States today. The author takes readers on a compelling step-by-step journey through the American execution process including interviews with prisoners who have spent years on death row, prison staff who guard the condemned, and the men who act as executioners."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b10591501.
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description ""This much anticipated second edition of Robert Johnson's Death Work offers a frank and unsettling look at the consequences of the death penalty in the United States today. The author takes readers on a compelling step-by-step journey through the American execution process including interviews with prisoners who have spent years on death row, prison staff who guard the condemned, and the men who act as executioners."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "I. Executions past -- 1. Executions past : executions in the West from antiquity to the twentieth century -- Executions in historical perspective : an overview -- Executions past -- Ancient executions : public, passionate violence -- Medieval executions : ceremonial violence -- Early modern executions : refined ritual, subdued ceremony -- The threshold of accepted violence -- Notes -- 2. Executions in America -- The end of public ritual -- Public executions, legal and illegal, in the American South -- Prison executions : private, bureaucratic procedure -- Modern executions and the illusion of humaneness -- Modern executions and the ordeal of dehumanization -- Civilization and the death penalty -- Notes -- II. Waiting to die : a study of modern death rows -- 3. Death row : conditions of confinement -- Death row confinement in historical perspective -- Current conditions on death row -- Death row reforms : the illusion of change -- Case study of a failed reform -- Back to the future : high-tech solitary confinement on modern death rows -- A death row by any other name ... -- Women on death row -- Notes -- 4. Living and working on death row -- Living on death row : the psychology of human warehousing -- Powerlessness -- Loneliness -- Vulnerability -- Coping and the crucible of deterioration -- A living death -- Working on death row -- Tension and fear -- Human services-- Us and them : the divisive role of executions -- Notes.".
• catalog description "III. In cold blood : a study of modern executions -- 5. Death work : a modern execution team -- Death work and death workers : defining parameters -- The deathwatch team -- Executions by the book -- On-the-job training -- Team cohesion -- "We're a family" -- The private world of the execution team -- An elite unit -- A modern execution team -- Notes -- 6. Deathwatch : the final hours -- Social control -- Keeping the prisoner calm -- Maintaining emotional distance -- Calculated camaraderie -- Unintentional collusion -- The final hours : critical junctures in an execution -- Defeated men -- Behind-the-scenes preparation -- Psyching up -- Administrative concerns and chronic uncertainty -- Holding up under pressure -- Notes -- 7. An execution and its aftermath -- Witness to an execution -- The prisoner's decline -- The view from the cell -- The executioners' perspective -- the execution -- The morning after -- Executions and American society -- Notes -- IV. Moral and legal considerations -- 8. A modern instance of torture -- Defining torture -- Distinguishing torture from punishment -- Death row as torturous confinement -- Dehumanization -- Human nature defined -- Human nature defiled -- The benefits of torture -- The limits of reform -- Humane death rows -- Closing death rows : humaneness at a safe distance? -- Implications -- Summary -- Notes -- 9. Punishing murderers : choosing life over death -- Retribution and the death penalty -- The finality of death -- A civil death penalty -- Obstacles to reform -- Economic objections -- Public safety questions -- Moral objections -- Conclusion -- Notes.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 262 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Death work.".
• catalog identifier "053452155X (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Death work.".
• catalog isPartOf "Contemporary issues in crime and justice series".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Pub. Co.,".
• catalog relation "Death work.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "364.66/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Death row United States.".
• catalog subject "Executions and executioners History.".
• catalog subject "Executions and executioners United States.".
• catalog subject "HV8699.U5 J643 1998".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Executions past -- 1. Executions past : executions in the West from antiquity to the twentieth century -- Executions in historical perspective : an overview -- Executions past -- Ancient executions : public, passionate violence -- Medieval executions : ceremonial violence -- Early modern executions : refined ritual, subdued ceremony -- The threshold of accepted violence -- Notes -- 2. Executions in America -- The end of public ritual -- Public executions, legal and illegal, in the American South -- Prison executions : private, bureaucratic procedure -- Modern executions and the illusion of humaneness -- Modern executions and the ordeal of dehumanization -- Civilization and the death penalty -- Notes -- II. Waiting to die : a study of modern death rows -- 3. Death row : conditions of confinement -- Death row confinement in historical perspective -- Current conditions on death row -- Death row reforms : the illusion of change -- Case study of a failed reform -- Back to the future : high-tech solitary confinement on modern death rows -- A death row by any other name ... -- Women on death row -- Notes -- 4. Living and working on death row -- Living on death row : the psychology of human warehousing -- Powerlessness -- Loneliness -- Vulnerability -- Coping and the crucible of deterioration -- A living death -- Working on death row -- Tension and fear -- Human services-- Us and them : the divisive role of executions -- Notes.".
• catalog tableOfContents "III. In cold blood : a study of modern executions -- 5. Death work : a modern execution team -- Death work and death workers : defining parameters -- The deathwatch team -- Executions by the book -- On-the-job training -- Team cohesion -- "We're a family" -- The private world of the execution team -- An elite unit -- A modern execution team -- Notes -- 6. Deathwatch : the final hours -- Social control -- Keeping the prisoner calm -- Maintaining emotional distance -- Calculated camaraderie -- Unintentional collusion -- The final hours : critical junctures in an execution -- Defeated men -- Behind-the-scenes preparation -- Psyching up -- Administrative concerns and chronic uncertainty -- Holding up under pressure -- Notes -- 7. An execution and its aftermath -- Witness to an execution -- The prisoner's decline -- The view from the cell -- The executioners' perspective -- the execution -- The morning after -- Executions and American society -- Notes -- IV. Moral and legal considerations -- 8. A modern instance of torture -- Defining torture -- Distinguishing torture from punishment -- Death row as torturous confinement -- Dehumanization -- Human nature defined -- Human nature defiled -- The benefits of torture -- The limits of reform -- Humane death rows -- Closing death rows : humaneness at a safe distance? -- Implications -- Summary -- Notes -- 9. Punishing murderers : choosing life over death -- Retribution and the death penalty -- The finality of death -- A civil death penalty -- Obstacles to reform -- Economic objections -- Public safety questions -- Moral objections -- Conclusion -- Notes.".
• catalog title "Death work : a study of the modern execution process / Robert Johnson.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".