SOC 2760 Midterm: Homicide Midterm One Notes.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

Document Summary

Arguments for depictions of poor, minorities, women, religious groups, and others who were previously overlooked in history: renewed respect for narrative rather than quantitative or technical analysis, with regard to the murder of helen jewett (a prostitute), newspaper accounts and trial transcripts were usually kept unofficially by reporters rather than by the courts, provided much material about lives of ordinary marginalized groups that would be otherwise hard to find. Family members and friends of murder victims: 1991 survey 9. 3% of surveyed were homicide survivors equates to 28 million people, hs(homicide survivors) experience deeper, longer lasting trauma more than accidental deaths cause, must contend with the fact that the life was taken willfully, also experience an invasion of privacy from press portraying loved one in negative light, anger toward murderer+ social stigma from having a loved one murdered, often feel ignored by criminal justice system o o, also physical symptoms (headaches, loss of appetite etc)