SOC 2760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Crime Scene Cleanup, Restorative Justice
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Chapter 16: the impact of homicide (5 questions) homicide. Interpersonal relationships are often affected as well: extrapersonal losses include loss of income, home, social status. Murder site clean-up: if the murder occurred in the survivors/victim"s home, the survivor will be responsible for arranging the clean-up and paying for the service. Survivors and the criminal justice system: crimes in the united states are views as crimes against the state instead of crimes against individual victims, this makes the victim"s role peripheral. Interactions with the criminal justice system leave survivors feeling powerless: plea bargaining, not-guilty verdicts, reduced sentences add to the feelings of helplessness and lack of control victim"s. Instituted to provide a better experience for crime victims and witnesses in the criminal justice system: victim"s are more likely to be updated in the case, victims are informed of compensation and counselling that is available to them.