Rachel Condry

Families Shamed

The Consequences of Crime for Relatives of Serious Offenders

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to examine the experiences of relatives of those accused or convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and sex offences. Itdraws upon intense qualitative research which combines long, searching interviews with the relatives of serious offenders with ethnographic fieldwork over a period of several years.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Ethnography
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 159mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781843925019
• ISBN-10: 184392501X
• Artikelnr.: 25341898

Autorenporträt

Rachel Condry is a Lecturer in Criminology, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford University. Her research interests include: family violence; the families of offenders and victims; the family in youth justice; secondary victimization; narrative accounts and neutralizations; vicarious shame and stigma; the state regulation of parenting and family life.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Discovering the Offence 2. Life After Discovery 3.
Secondary Stigma, Shame and Blame 4. Making Sense of the Offence 5.
Relatives' Own Accounts 6. Self-help for Families of Serious Offenders.
Conclusion Appendix 1: Notes on methodology Appendix 2: Interviewee
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