After Homicide

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Homicide in England and Wales2 - Bereavement after Homicide3 - Bereavement as a Career4 - The Moral Economy of the Homicide Survivor5 - Beginnings: From The Compassionate Friends to Parents of Murdered Children6 - Victim Support and Parents of Murdered Children7 - The Campaigning Survivors: Justice for Victims, Activism, and the Mass Media8 - The Politics of Justice for Victims9 - The Evolution of SAMM10 - Conclusion

AUTORE

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

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198267959
• Collana: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
• Dimensioni: 224 x 25.0 x 145 mm Ø 602 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 384