Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process
<p>As of the early 1990s, one of the primary justifications for the application of the death penalty in the United States has been the assertion that family members of homicide victims (hereafter, ‘co-victims’) require the execution of an offender in order to heal; executions are held out as a...
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| description | <p>As of the early 1990s, one of the primary justifications for the application of the death penalty in the United States has been the assertion that family members of homicide victims (hereafter, ‘co-victims’) require the execution of an offender in order to heal; executions are held out as a remedy that can provide co-victims with closure. Unsurprisingly, existing research on co-victims and their encounters with capital punishment has, therefore, focused primarily on the impact of the execution itself. As a result, there is a comparative dearth of work specifically examining the experiences of co-victims throughout the capital appeals process. This process takes, on average, 19 years to complete and, as only a few of those sentenced to death waive their rights to appeal, it is experienced by almost all co-victims. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to address the notable dearth of scholarship pertaining to homicide co-victims’ experiences during the capital appellate process. Drawing on findings from 34 semi-structured interviews with both homicide co-victims and non-victims who had worked in matters relating to the capital system, the research explores the unique and profound impact of losing a loved one to homicide and investigates how the capital appeals process influences co-victims’ trajectories of grief and recovery. Over the course of three findings chapters (or ‘phases’), the study conceptualises the grief process as a journey, and analyses how elements of the capital appeals process either interrupt or facilitate the psychological healing process. Specifically, the study examines how co-victims’ interactions with the capital appeals process shape their perceptions of perceived present control and procedural justice, offering valuable insight into how co-victims navigate the landscape of capital punishment and, by extension, whether capital punishment can serve as a means to achieve therapeutic objectives for this particular group of co-victims.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:09f45693-73fa-463e-b1bd-4fda8693bd872024-11-04T15:24:36ZReclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals processThesishttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_db06uuid:09f45693-73fa-463e-b1bd-4fda8693bd87CriminologyEnglishHyrax Deposit2024Inglis, AHoyle, C<p>As of the early 1990s, one of the primary justifications for the application of the death penalty in the United States has been the assertion that family members of homicide victims (hereafter, ‘co-victims’) require the execution of an offender in order to heal; executions are held out as a remedy that can provide co-victims with closure. Unsurprisingly, existing research on co-victims and their encounters with capital punishment has, therefore, focused primarily on the impact of the execution itself. As a result, there is a comparative dearth of work specifically examining the experiences of co-victims throughout the capital appeals process. This process takes, on average, 19 years to complete and, as only a few of those sentenced to death waive their rights to appeal, it is experienced by almost all co-victims. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to address the notable dearth of scholarship pertaining to homicide co-victims’ experiences during the capital appellate process. Drawing on findings from 34 semi-structured interviews with both homicide co-victims and non-victims who had worked in matters relating to the capital system, the research explores the unique and profound impact of losing a loved one to homicide and investigates how the capital appeals process influences co-victims’ trajectories of grief and recovery. Over the course of three findings chapters (or ‘phases’), the study conceptualises the grief process as a journey, and analyses how elements of the capital appeals process either interrupt or facilitate the psychological healing process. Specifically, the study examines how co-victims’ interactions with the capital appeals process shape their perceptions of perceived present control and procedural justice, offering valuable insight into how co-victims navigate the landscape of capital punishment and, by extension, whether capital punishment can serve as a means to achieve therapeutic objectives for this particular group of co-victims.</p> |
| spellingShingle | Criminology Inglis, A Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title | Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title_full | Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title_fullStr | Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title_short | Reclaiming control after homicide: co-victims’ trajectories through the American capital appeals process |
| title_sort | reclaiming control after homicide co victims trajectories through the american capital appeals process |
| topic | Criminology |
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