After Homicide

Practical and Political Responses to Bereavement
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-19-826795-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 602 g

After Homicide describes the collective responses of bereaved people to the aftermath of violent death, a subject not dealt with in any detail in the literature that is currently available. The book concentrates particularly on the birth, development and organization of the self help and campaigning groups that emerged in the last decade. The author examines these as attempts to give institutional expression to interpretations of grief, and shows us that these attemps, in their turn, are implicated in a potent phenomenology of mourning.

In addition, the author had special access to a number of groups and uses the infomation that he gathered through this access to discuss the practical and political importance of the work of these groups, and their affects on policing, the media and the law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rock, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Homicide in England and Wales

- 2: Bereavement after Homicide

- 3: Bereavement as a Career

- 4: The Moral Economy of the Homicide Survivor

- 5: Beginnings: From The Compassionate Friends to Parents of Murdered Children

- 6: Victim Support and Parents of Murdered Children

- 7: The Campaigning Survivors: Justice for Victims, Activism, and the Mass Media

- 8: The Politics of Justice for Victims

- 9: The Evolution of SAMM

- 10: Conclusion

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Rock is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.