Homicide, Bereavement, and the Criminal Justice System in Texas, 2000 / Sarah Dugan Goodrum.

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Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 3263.

ICPSR ; 3263

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

This study assessed the influence of the criminal justice system on the bereavement process of individuals who have lost loved ones to homicide. The primary question motivating this research was: Can the criminal justice system help to heal the harm of the bereaved's loss? The three main goals of this study were to examine: (1) bereaveds' perceptions of and experiences with the criminal justice system and its professionals, (2) the ways criminal justice professionals perceive and manage the bereaved, and (3) the nature of the association between the criminal justice system and bereaveds' psychological well-being. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews conducted in June through December 2000 with two different groups of people. The first group represented individuals who had lost loved ones to murder between 1994 and 1998 in one county in Texas (Parts 1-33). The second group (Parts 34-55) was comprised county criminal justice professionals (murder detectives, prosecutors, criminal court judges, victim's service counselors, and victim's rights advocates). For Parts 1-33, interviewees were asked a series of open-ended questions about the criminal justice system, including how they learned about the death and the current disposition of the murder case. They also were asked what they would change about the criminal justice system's treatment of them. The bereaved were further asked about their sex, age, race, education, marital status, employment status, income, and number of children. Additional questions were asked regarding the deceased's age at the time of the murder, race, relationship to interviewee, and the deceased's relationship to the murderer, if known. For Parts 34-55, respondents were asked about their job titles, years in those positions, number of murder cases handled in the past year, number of murder cases handled over the course of their career, and... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03263

Contents:

Part 1: Bereaved Interview 1; Part 2: Bereaved Interview 2; Part 3: Bereaved Interview 3; Part 4: Bereaved Interview 4; Part 5: Bereaved Interview 5; Part 6: Bereaved Interview 6; Part 7: Bereaved Interview 7; Part 8: Bereaved Interview 8; Part 9: Bereaved Interview 9; Part 10: Bereaved Interview 10; Part 11: Bereaved Interview 11; Part 12: Bereaved Interview 12; Part 13: Bereaved Interview 13; Part 14: Bereaved Interview 14; Part 15: Bereaved Interview 15; Part 16: Bereaved Interview 16; Part 17: Bereaved Interview 17; Part 18: Bereaved Interview 18; Part 19: Bereaved Interview 19; Part 20: Bereaved Interview 20; Part 21: Bereaved Interview 21; Part 22: Bereaved Interview 22; Part 23: Bereaved Interview 23; Part 24: Bereaved Interview 24; Part 25: Bereaved Interview 25; Part 26: Bereaved Interview 26; Part 27: Bereaved Interview 27; Part 28: Bereaved Interview 28; Part 29: Bereaved Interview 29; Part 30: Bereaved Interview 30; Part 31: Bereaved Interview 31; Part 32: Bereaved Inte...

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Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61153849

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