Framing Forgiveness: An Analysis from the Offender's Point of View

This article examines (1) how offenders (i.e., death row inmates) express forgiveness at the moment of imminent death, (2) why certain expressions of forgiveness are used more frequently than others, and (3) whether there is any change over time in the hierarchy of preferred forgiveness expressions....

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Main Author: Smith, Ryan A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer [2019]
In: Review of religious research
Year: 2019, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 341-363
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jim Crow Laws / Doomed person / Last words / Forgiveness
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KBQ North America
ZB Sociology
Further subjects:B Offender
B Forgiveness dimensions
B death penalty
B Last words
B Religious forgiveness
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)