“Ah … the power of mothers”: Bereaved mothers as victim-heroes in media enacted crusades for justice
“Ah … the power of mothers”: Bereaved mothers as victim-heroes in media enacted crusades for justice
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“啊……母亲的力量”：失去亲人的母亲作为受害者英雄在媒体上发起了正义运动
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2016
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Sarah Wright
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Sarah Wright
母亲痛苦的展示是强大的，因为失去亲人的母亲的经历代表了任何父母最深的恐惧。当她的痛苦与要求支持改革司法制度的呼声交织在一起时，就有可能产生违宪的影响，因为母爱是没有止境的，因此，她的无期徒刑只能用对上述犯罪者同样的无尽痛苦来解决（Valier和Lippens，2004年）。本文探讨了当代媒体犯罪叙事中作为受害者-英雄的丧母形象的建构。它审查了新西兰的两起谋杀案，在这两起案件中，一位失去亲人的母亲的悲伤表现可能与法律的法典的修改有关。有人认为，作为受害者英雄的丧亲母亲的性格已经成为一个强大的变革力量，对刑事司法系统的修改有影响。有人认为，关键的注意是需要犯罪学的作用，在刑事司法话语的好母亲，特别是以何种方式，好母亲的特点是在介导的公共话语。
The display of maternal suffering is powerful, as the bereaved mother’s experience represents any parent’s deepest fear. When her pain is enmeshed with calls to support changes in our justice systems, it has the potential to bring about unconstitutional effects, for a mother’s love has no end and so her life sentence can only be addressed with equal amounts of endless suffering for the said offender (Valier and Lippens, 2004). This paper explores the construction of the bereaved mother figure as a victim-hero within contemporary media enacted crime narratives. It examines two murder cases in the New Zealand context where a bereaved mother’s displays of grief can be linked to changes made to the legal code. It will be argued that the character of the bereaved mother as a victim-hero has become a powerful agent of change that has implications for criminal justice system modification. It is argued that critical attention is required of criminology to the role of the good mother in criminal justice discourses, and in particular to the ways in which the good mother is characterised in mediated public discourses.