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Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence (Hardcover)
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Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence (Hardcover)
Series: Victims, Culture and Society
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Family Activism in the Aftermath of Fatal Violence explores how
family and family activism work at the intersection of personal and
public troubles and considers what influence family testimonies of
fatal violence can have on matters of crime, justice, and
punishment. The problem of fatal violence represents one end of a
long continuum of violence that marks society, the effects of which
endure in families and friends connected through ties of kinship,
identity and social bonds. The aftermath of fatal violence can
therefore be an intensely personal encounter which confronts
families with disorder and uncertainty. Nevertheless, bereaved
families are often found at the forefront of efforts to expose
injustice, rouse public consciousness, and drive forward social
change that seeks to prevent violence from happening again. This
book draws upon ethnographic research with those bereaved by gun
violence who became involved in family activism in the context of
fatal violence: namely, the attempts by bereaved families to manage
their experiences of violent death through public expressions of
grief and become proxies for wider debates on social injustice.
This is an ever more pressing issue in a landscape which
increasingly sees the delegation of responsibility to families and
communities that are left to deal with the aftermath of violence.
An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to
students and scholars of criminology, sociology, cultural studies,
and all those interested in learning more about the after-effects
of fatal violence.
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