Bereaved Family Activism in the Aftermath of Lethal Violence

拟议的研究金旨在完善和发展关于致命暴力事件后丧失亲人的家庭积极行动现象的学术研究。在大卫加兰（2001年;另见McGarry和Walklate，2015年）15年前提出“受害者回归”的主张之后，受害者的利益已经转移到刑事司法系统的中心舞台，受害者的声音在受害者运动中正式组织起来。在过去40年中，刑事司法政策已经发展到包括受害者的参与权、赔偿计划、受害者“捍卫者”和宪章。我的博士论文探讨了受害者运动的一种具体形式，即，丧失亲人的家庭行动主义;丧失亲人的亲属试图面对他们的暴力丧亲经历，以参与有组织的公共运动（舒特，2016）。虽然这些努力采取不同的形式，今天失去亲人的家庭行动主义可以在希尔斯伯勒家庭的真相运动中找到，多琳劳伦斯的警察改革努力，以及最近的格伦费尔正义运动。采用这样的运动，母亲反对暴力的案例研究，我的论文认为，失去亲人的家庭行动主义代表了一个空间，解决情感，社会和精神需求，将不同的经验联系在一起。受害者在他们生命中的不同阶段参与这些运动，出于不同的目的。拟议的奖学金将建立在我的博士研究基础上，并提供一个宝贵的机会来发展这种丧失亲人的家庭行动主义的概念，并扩大这种日益增长的奖学金对受害者的影响，从业者和政策制定者。该研究金的支持将为巩固现有的学术和非学术网络提供机会。为此，我打算组织一个为期一天的研讨会，探讨在其各种形式和背景下的丧失亲人的家庭行动主义的现象，无论是为了刑事司法宣传的目的，专家同行的支持，或在响应国家的不公正。这一活动将使受害者、基层活动家和研究人员聚集在一起，讨论行动主义在刑事司法改革和受害者支助方面可以发挥的作用。潜在的演讲者包括对家庭行动主义感兴趣的学者，如Phil Scraton（女王大学贝尔法斯特），Claire Moon（伦敦经济学院），Jon Shute以及来自母亲反对暴力，希尔斯伯勒正义运动和Grenfell正义运动的成员。本次活动的目的是为学术和非学术参与，知识交流和未来合作提供一个平台。为了确保持久的影响，将制作一份总结关键贡献的非专业报告，并创建一个项目网页和博客，供参与者贡献。为了巩固这些网络，我还将在莫纳什大学的性别和家庭暴力方案中担任访问研究员。这将提供一个机会，探讨家庭凶杀，亲密的家庭暴力和受害者运动之间的联系。是次海外院校访问，将提供重要的机会，让研究院可借此机会推广研究成果、交流知识，以及发掘日后与国际机构合作的潜力，并有助日后申请拨款。我打算通过两篇独家撰写的同行评审期刊文章和一本专著发表论文的关键发现。本研究的意义将探讨在家庭凶杀案的背景下，考虑在案件中，受害者与罪犯分享亲密的个人关系或家庭关系的丧失亲人的家庭维权的作用。我的目标是进行一系列的初步采访服务用户和致命的家庭虐待倡导组，AAFDA的工作人员。进行进一步的有限研究将有助于确定未来赠款申请的写作新出现的主题。

The proposed Fellowship aims to refine and develop scholarship on the phenomenon of bereaved family activism in the aftermath of lethal violence. Following David Garland's (2001; see also, McGarry and Walklate, 2015) assertion of the 'return of the victim' fifteen years ago, the interests of victims have moved to centre stage of the criminal justice system with victims' voices becoming formally organised in a victim movement. Over the past 40 years, criminal justice policy has developed to include victims' participatory rights, compensation schemes, victim 'champions' and charters. My doctoral thesis explored one specific form of victim movement, namely, bereaved family activism; the attempts by bereaved relatives to confront their experiences of violent bereavement to engage in organised and public campaigns (Shute, 2016). While these efforts take different shapes, today bereaved family activism can be found in the campaigns for truth by the Hillsborough Families, police reform efforts of Doreen Lawrence, and more recently, the Grenfell Justice movements. Employing a case study of one such campaign, Mothers Against Violence, my thesis argued that bereaved family activism represents a space for resolving emotional, social and spiritual needs which ties together different experiences. Victims engage in these campaigns at different points in their lives, for different purposes.The proposed Fellowship will build upon my doctoral research and provide a valuable opportunity to develop this concept of bereaved family activism and extend the impact of this growing scholarship for victims, practitioners and policymakers. The support of this Fellowship would provide an opportunity to consolidate existing academic and non-academic networks. To this effect, I intend to organise a one-day symposium exploring the phenomenon of bereaved family activism in its various forms and context, whether for the purpose of criminal justice advocacy, specialist peer support or in response to state injustices. This event will bring together victims, grassroots campaigners and researchers to discuss the role that activism can play in criminal justice reform and victim support. Potential speakers include academics with an interest in family activism such as Phil Scraton (Queen's University Belfast), Claire Moon (London School of Economics), Jon Shute and members from Mothers Against Violence, Hillsborough Justice Campaigns, and Grenfell Justice Movements. The aim of this event will be to provide a platform for academic and non-academic engagement, knowledge exchange, and future collaboration. To ensure enduring impact, a lay report summarising key contributions will be produced and a project webpage and blog will be created which participants can contribute to. To consolidate these networks, I will also undertake a Visiting Fellowship at Monash University at the Gender and Family Violence Programme. This will offer an opportunity to explore the connections between domestic homicide, intimate familial violence and the victims movement. This overseas institutional visit would provide important opportunities for disseminating research findings, knowledge exchange and identifying the potential for future collaborations with an international dimension.These endeavours will also contribute towards the development of future grant applications. I intend to publish key findings from the thesis through two sole-authored peer-reviewed journal articles and a monograph. The significance of this research will be explored in the context of domestic homicide to consider the role of bereaved family activism in cases where victims share intimate personal relationships or familial ties with the offender. I aim to undertake a series of preliminary interviews with service users and staff of a fatal domestic abuse advocacy group, AAFDA. Conducting a further amount of limited research will help to identify emerging themes for the writing of future grant applications.