“…This process is, of course, integral to important ceremonial occasions such as funerals and criminal trials, whose elaborate rituals and dramaturgical conventions work to confirm moral boundaries, socially recognize wrongs, working to refute some versions of reality and morality, and to validate others (Cohen, 2001;Durkheim, 1893Durkheim, /1933Garfinkel, 1956;Garland, 1991;Rock, 1993;Thiel, 2015). Secondary victims of serious crimes such as homicide, therefore, look to the criminal justice system and its courts to acknowledge the innocence of the deceased, the family's status as secondary victims of an immoral aberration, and their ensuing right to be recognized and treated as innocent parties (Martin, 2005;Rock, 1998aRock, , 2014.…”