Victims of Crime and Punishment: Interviews with Victims, Convicts, Their Families, and Support Groups [Paperback]

Shirley Dicks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1991 | ISBN-10: 0899506380 | ISBN-13: 978-0899506388

This thought provoking collection of interviews provides an insight into the multi-faceted issues of victims. Topics include personal accounts from victims as well as voices for reform. Also discussed are organizations who provide assistance to victims. Interviews with M. Kerry Kennedy, Daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Coretta Scott King, Widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., and James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., included in this book.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

): My book, Victims of Crime and Punishment, was inspired after after my son Jeff was wrongly convicted in Tennessee and sent to death row. I began researching the death penalty, and speaking out against it. Though I speak out against the death penalty, in this book I cover victims of punishment as well as victims of crime. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 174 pages
• Publisher: McFarland & Company (November 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899506380
• ISBN-13: 978-0899506388
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,148,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born and raised in Concord, NH and moved south back in the 70s, ending up in TN. With four kids, I lived in NC for a few years until moving to middle Tn and began to write.

My first three books were bought by McFarland co, called, Death Row, Victims, and From Vietnam To Hell. Next, I sold Young Blood and Congregation of the Condemned by Prometheus Books and New Horizon Press took They're Going To Kill My Son which was my life story. However they changed things, names and all so eventually I rewrote it, brought it up to date and began to self publish my own books, called, A Mothers Torment, www.amotherstorment.com

I self published The Choice Is Yours, A Long Road Home, The Devil's Playground, and There IS Life After Fifty. McFarland is now republishing my first three books that had gone out of print and now I'm putting them up as ebooks.


Now that I'm in my seventies, I'm trying to learn photography now in order to do some travel articles with photos. Also working on two non fiction books plus a romance.

My oldest son Jeff Dicks was killed in 1999 due to medical neglect and I lost my youngest son Trevor Dicks who spoke out on the death penalty issue with me at schools and colleges, due to a car crash. I adopted Jeff's daughter when she was born and she's now in her thirties with three beautiful children of her own.

I try to keep busy with my writing, my photography, spending time with my three beautiful great grandchildren, crocheting and anything I can do.

Will be adding my books as ebooks in the near future