RT Article
T1 Murderers, victims and 'survivors'. The social construction of deviance
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 38
IS 2
SP 185
OP 200
A1 Rock, Paul Elliott 1943-
LA English
YR 1998
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640121447
AB Two visions of homicide, murderers and victims are contrasted. One, conventional in criminology, has it that murders are the culmination of drawn-out, acrimonious transactions occurring within demographically homogeneous sectors of the population. It leads to a blurring of moral identities and causal relations. The other is championed by homicide survivors' organizations, and it claims an existentially validated authority. Homicide is experienced by survivors' as a chaotic episode which gives way to strong, antagonistic archetypes of victim and offender. The two visions are examined, in part, to promote an appreciation of the analytic complexities of the phenomenon of murder; in part, to point to the fraught politics that are beginning to emerge around resolving the character of murder
K1 Tötungsdelikte
K1 Mord
K1 Selbsthilfegruppen
K1 Typologie
K1 Soziale Konstruktion
K1 Täter-Opfer-Beziehungen
K1 Überlebende