Full Description
Shattered Justice presents original crime victims' experiences with violent crime, investigations and trials, and later exonerations in their cases. Using in-depth interviews with 21 crime victims across the United States, Cook reveals how homicide victims' family members and rape survivors describe the painful impact of the primary trauma, the secondary trauma of the investigations and trials, and then the tertiary trauma associated with wrongful convictions and exonerations. Important lessons and analyses are shared related to grief and loss, and healing and repair. Using restorative justice practices to develop and deliver healing retreats for survivors also expands the practice of restorative justice. Finally, policy reforms aimed at preventing, mitigating, and repairing the harms of wrongful convictions is covered.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Studying Victims who Experience Exonerations (Primary and Secondary Trauma)
Chapter 1: Introduction: Issues, Methods, and Participants
Chapter 2: Shattered Lives
Chapter 3: Shattered Investigations and Trials
Chapter 4: Shattered Families
Part II: Tertiary Trauma
Chapter 5: Shattered Justice
Chapter 6: Shattered System
Chapter 7: Elements of Tertiary Trauma
Chapter 8: Shattered Grief, Loss, and Coping
Part Three: Healing, Repair, and Reform
Chapter 9: Healing Justice
Chapter 10: Repairing and Restoring Justice
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