Bereaved Family Activism in the Aftermath of Lethal Violence

拟议的奖学金旨在完善和发展关于致命暴力事件后丧失亲人的家庭行动主义现象的学术研究。继David Garland（2001；另见McGarry和Walklate， 2015）在15年前断言“受害者的回归”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年里，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“拥护者”和宪章。我的博士论文探讨了受害者运动的一种具体形式，即丧亲家庭行动主义；失去亲人的亲属试图面对他们的暴力丧亲经历，参与有组织的公共运动（Shute, 2016）。虽然这些努力的形式各不相同，但今天的丧亲家庭行动主义可以在希尔斯堡家族的真相运动、多琳·劳伦斯的警察改革运动以及最近的格伦费尔正义运动中找到。我的论文以“母亲反对暴力”（Mothers Against Violence）运动为例，认为丧亲家庭行动主义代表了一个解决情感、社会和精神需求的空间，这些需求将不同的经历联系在一起。受害者在人生的不同阶段为了不同的目的参与这些活动。拟议的奖学金将建立在我的博士研究的基础上，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，并扩大这一日益增长的奖学金对受害者、从业者和政策制定者的影响。这项研究金的支助将提供一个机会，巩固现有的学术和非学术网络。为此，我打算组织一个为期一天的研讨会，探讨丧亲家庭在各种形式和背景下的行动主义现象，无论是为了刑事司法宣传，专家同伴支持还是为了回应国家的不公正。这次活动将把受害者、草根活动家和研究人员聚集在一起，讨论激进主义在刑事司法改革和受害者支持方面可以发挥的作用。潜在的演讲者包括对家庭激进主义感兴趣的学者，如菲尔·斯克顿（贝尔法斯特女王大学）、克莱尔·穆恩（伦敦经济学院）、乔恩·舒特和来自反暴力母亲组织、希尔斯堡正义运动组织和格伦费尔正义运动组织的成员。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，将制作一份概述主要贡献的外行报告，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，我还将担任莫纳什大学性别与家庭暴力项目的访问学者。这将为探索家庭凶杀、家庭暴力和受害者运动之间的联系提供一个机会。这次海外机构访问将为传播研究成果、知识交流和确定未来国际合作的潜力提供重要机会。这些努力也将有助于发展未来的拨款申请。我打算通过两篇单独撰写的同行评议期刊文章和一篇专著来发表论文的主要发现。本研究的意义将在家庭杀人的背景下进行探讨，以考虑在受害者与罪犯有亲密的个人关系或家庭关系的情况下，丧失亲人的家庭行动主义的作用。我的目标是对服务使用者和致命家暴倡导组织AAFDA的工作人员进行一系列初步访谈。进一步进行有限的研究将有助于确定撰写未来拨款申请的新主题。

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.