Living on Death Row: The Psychology of Waiting to Die
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Presents wide-ranging scholarly perspectives from psychologists, legal professionals, and criminologists, along with compelling personal accounts from prison administrators and actual death row inmates. Together, they reveal the systemic, physical, and moral conditions that define and underlie death row.

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Presents wide-ranging scholarly perspectives from psychologists, legal professionals, and criminologists, along with compelling personal accounts from prison administrators and actual death row inmates. Together, they reveal the systemic, physical, and moral conditions that define and underlie death row.
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Hans Toch, PhD, is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Albany at the State University of New York, where he is affiliated with the School of Criminal Justice. He obtained his PhD in social psychology at Princeton University, has taught at Michigan State University and at Harvard University, and in 1996, served as the Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Toch is a fellow of both APA and the American Society of Criminology. In 1996, he acted as president of the American Association of Correctional Psychology. He is a recipient of the Hadley Cantril Memorial Award (for Men in Crisis), the August Vollmer Award of the American Society of Criminology for outstanding contributions to applied criminology, the Prix deGreff from the International Society of Criminology for Distinction in Clinical Criminology, and the Research Award of the International Corrections and Prison Association. Dr. Toch's research interests range from mental health problems and the psychology of violence to issues of organizational reform and planned change. His books include  The Social Psychology of Social Movements (1965, 2013), Reforming Human Services: Change Through Participation (with J. D. Grant, 1982), Violent Men (1992), Living in Prison (1992), Mosaic of Despair (1992), The Disturbed Violent Offender (with Kenneth Adams, 1994), Police Violence  (with William Geller, 1996), Corrections: A Humanistic Approach (1997),  Crime and Punishment (with Robert Johnson, 2000), Acting Out (with Kenneth Adams, 2002), Stress in Policing (2002), Police as Problem Solvers (2005), Cop Watch: Spectators, Social Media, and Police Reform (2012), Organizational Change Through Individual Empowerment: Applying Social Psychology in Prisons and Policing (2014), and Violent Men, 25th Anniversary Edition (2017). James R. Acker, JD, PhD, is a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany. He earned his JD at Duke Law School and his PhD at the University at Albany. He is the author of  Questioning Capital Punishment: Law, Policy, and Practice (2014), and coeditor of America's Experiment With Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction (3rd ed., 2014). He has written numerous scholarly articles addressing the death penalty, wrongful convictions, criminal law, and related subjects. Vincent Martin Bonventre, JD, PhD, is the Justice Robert H. Jackson Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School. He received his PhD in government, specializing in public law, at the University of Virginia; a JD from Brooklyn Law School; and a BS from Union College. He was a law clerk to Judges Matthew J. Jasen and Stewart F. Hancock, Jr., of the New York Court of Appeals. Between those clerkships, he was selected by Chief Justice Warren Burger to serve as a United States Supreme Court Judicial Fellow. He teaches, comments, advises, and has authored numerous works on courts, judges, and various areas of public law. Those areas include the judicial process, the Supreme Court and state high courts, criminal law, and civil liberties.