{"@type": "dcat:Dataset", "accessLevel": "restricted public", "bureauCode": ["011:21"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Open Data Office of Justice Programs (USDOJ)", "hasEmail": "mailto:opendata@usdoj.gov"}, "dataQuality": false, "description": "This study assessed the influence of the criminal justice\r\nsystem on the bereavement process of individuals who have lost loved\r\nones to homicide. The primary question motivating this research was:\r\nCan the criminal justice system help to heal the harm of the\r\nbereaved's loss? The three main goals of this study were to examine:\r\n(1) bereaveds' perceptions of and experiences with the criminal\r\njustice system and its professionals, (2) the ways criminal justice\r\nprofessionals perceive and manage the bereaved, and (3) the nature of\r\nthe association between the criminal justice system and bereaveds'\r\npsychological well-being. Data were obtained from in-depth interviews\r\nconducted in June through December 2000 with two different groups of\r\npeople. The first group represented individuals who had lost loved\r\nones to murder between 1994 and 1998 in one county in Texas (Parts\r\n1-33). The second group (Parts 34-55) was comprised county criminal\r\njustice professionals (murder detectives, prosecutors, criminal court\r\njudges, victim's service counselors, and victim's rights advocates).\r\nFor Parts 1-33, interviewees were asked a series of open-ended\r\nquestions about the criminal justice system, including how they\r\nlearned about the death and the current disposition of the murder\r\ncase. They also were asked what they would change about the criminal\r\njustice system's treatment of them. The bereaved were further asked\r\nabout their sex, age, race, education, marital status, employment\r\nstatus, income, and number of children. Additional questions were\r\nasked regarding the deceased's age at the time of the murder, race,\r\nrelationship to interviewee, and the deceased's relationship to the\r\nmurderer, if known. For Parts 34-55, respondents were asked about\r\ntheir job titles, years in those positions, number of murder cases\r\nhandled in the past year, number of murder cases handled over the\r\ncourse of their career, and whether they thought the criminal justice\r\nsystem could help to heal the harm of people who had lost loved ones\r\nto murder. All interviews (Parts 1-55) were tape-recorded and later\r\ntranscribed by the interviewer, who replaced actual names of\r\nindividuals, neighborhoods, cities, counties, or any other\r\nidentifiable names with pseudonyms.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03263.v1", "title": "Homicide, Bereavement, and the Criminal Justice System in Texas, 2000"}], "identifier": "3645", "issued": "2001-12-14T00:00:00", "keyword": ["criminal justice system", "death counseling", "grief", "homicide", "judges", "loss adjustment", "murder", "prosecuting attorneys", "psychological wellbeing", "victim services"], "language": ["eng"], "license": "http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/", "modified": "2006-03-30T00:00:00", "programCode": ["011:060"], "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "National Institute of Justice", "subOrganizationOf": {"acronym": "OJP", "id": 22, "name": "Office of Justice Programs", "parentOrganization": {"acronym": "DOJ", "id": 10, "name": "Department of Justice"}, "parentOrganizationID": 10}}, "rights": "These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.", "title": "Homicide, Bereavement, and the Criminal Justice System in Texas, 2000"}