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Coping With Innocence After Death Row
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Kennedy Brewer spent 13 years behind bars seven on death row for the rape and murder of a 3-year-old girl. On February 15, 2008, he became the 127th death row inmate in the United States exonerated and released from prison.
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“A formal apology can allow the wrongfully convicted to shed their 'spoiled identity' because it removes residual suspicion and destigmatises them as 'innocent' (Westervelt & Cook, 2008).”
From The Zemiological Afterlife of Wrongful Conviction: Spoiled Identity, Repair and Survivorship (2024) · cites this paper as Westervelt & Cook, 2008
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“By tracking the less visible long-term harms that the 'sustained catastrophe' (Westervelt & Cook, 2008) of wrongful conviction brings, these memoirs are well placed to illuminate the large body of Naughton's zemiological iceberg that remains hidden under the water level.”
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“It empowers victims to 'speak for themselves' (McGarry & Walklate, 2015:4), to 'make sense' of how their experience has changed them as a person (Green et al., 2021), to educate others about their experience (Westervelt & Cook, 2008;Westlund, 2018) and to challenge ongoing and future abuses of power (Savage et al., 2007;Hearty, 2021).”
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Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity
(1969) · Postgraduate Medical Journal · doi:10.1136/pgmj.45.527.642 · Cited by 14,255
Psychological Consequences of Wrongful Conviction and Imprisonment
Grounds, A. (2004) · Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice · doi:10.3138/cjccj.46.2.165 · Cited by 140
The Burden of Innocence: Coping with a Wrongful Imprisonment
Campbell, K., & Denov, M. (2004) · Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice · doi:10.3138/cjccj.46.2.139 · Cited by 97
(2013) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203782682 · Cited by 8
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- Michael L. Radelet, 1992, In Spite of Innocence
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Brooks, S. K., & Greenberg, N. (2021) · Medicine, Science and the Law · doi:10.1177/0025802420949069 · Cited by 74
Cultural consequences of miscarriages of justice
Cole, S. A. (2009) · Behavioral Sciences & the Law · doi:10.1002/bsl.874 · Cited by 20
The Zemiological Afterlife of Wrongful Conviction: Spoiled Identity, Repair and Survivorship
Hearty, K. (2024) · Critical Criminology · doi:10.1007/s10612-023-09737-1 · Cited by 2
“The exoneration of the wrongfully convicted might seem like the ultimate success for any innocence project, yet the enduring image of the wrongfully convicted smiling defiantly upon release masks how release presents new challenges (Westervelt & Cook, 2008; Madrigal & Norris, 2022).”
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- Authors
- Westervelt, S. D., & Cook, K. J.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina Wilmington (US)
- ORCID
- Cook, Kimberly J.
- Venue
- Contexts
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-11
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 32-37
- ISSN
- 1536-5042 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-6052
- OpenAlex
- W2022642846
- Cited by
- 31
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 5.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- libres.uncg.edu
- Locations
- Contexts (publishedVersion)
- NC Digital Online Collection of Knowledge and Scholarship (The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Keywords
- death row, wrongful convictions, exoneration, childhood innocence, rape and murder, death penalty
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