Facilitating access to scene photographs and CCTV footage for relatives bereaved after violent death

Mowll, Jane; Adams, Gillian; Darling, Juliet

doi:10.1080/02682621.2017.1305042

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“…Note. Source: Victim Assistance Holland (Mowll et al, 2016(Mowll et al, , 2017. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

Section: Finding the Missing Piece-conclusionmentioning

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Photo viewing after traumatic death: Finding the missing piece.

Mönnink¹

2019

Traumatology

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All too often, the needs of bereaved relatives are not met because they are advised to not look at the bodies of their loved ones who died a traumatic death. Because their needs are unmet, bereaved relatives often experience secondary victimization, which is an unnecessary additional pain. Therefore, after losing their loved ones to traffic or aircraft accidents, homicides, suicides, or mass disasters (such as terror attacks, tsunami, and earthquakes), bereaved relatives often struggle with many unanswered questions, for example, I did not see him/her with my own eyes, so is it really true my loved one died? Where and how was my loved one found? Did he or she suffer? How did my loved one look like? These questions are posed to professionals who in turn ask themselves, would it be helpful or not helpful for these bereaved relatives to be shown pictures of the dead body of their loved ones? Can "photo viewing" (PV) fulfill the unfulfilled needs of these bereaved relatives? First, we describe different forms of secondary victimization when bereaved relatives are denied their wish to see their deceased loved one. Then, principles underlying PV and the step-by-step PV approach will be described in a checklist format, followed by a classification of bereavement needs after a traumatic death. It was concluded that if PV is carefully carried out with informed consent, it fulfills a variety of needs of bereaved people in traumatic death cases. There is evidence that although in the short term, PV causes unavoidable pain to bereaved relatives, in the long term, it makes them feel less distressed.

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“…Note. Source: Victim Assistance Holland (Mowll et al, 2016(Mowll et al, , 2017. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.…”

Section: Finding the Missing Piece-conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Photo viewing after traumatic death: Finding the missing piece.

Mönnink¹

2019

Traumatology

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The Problem of Story: Criminal Evidence, Affect, and Sense-making

Rossmanith

2020

Life Writing

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Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide

Benton,

Sexton

2024

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PurposeThe article presents research on the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals in the context of record-keeping practice within Major Crime Units (MCU) in England. The research objectives were to: (1) identify the long-term information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide; (2) establish MCU officer perceptions on the provision of information to individuals bereaved by homicide; (3) establish the current practice of MCU officers in managing and providing access to homicide records and (4) explore the capability of current recordkeeping practice to move beyond the use of homicide records for their primary “policing” purpose.Design/methodology/approachThe research objectives were met by combining findings from a literature review across policing, bereavement, death, victimology, criminology, records management and archival studies with results from a singular interview-based study with officers at the Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Major Crime Unit (BHCMCU).FindingsThe findings indicate that the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals are ill-served by the current police recordkeeping framework which provides them with little involvement in record-keeping decision-making and limited long-term access to the information required for sensemaking/adaption in a post-homicide world. In this context, the research demonstrates a long term need for: (1) information access; (2) support for access; (3) a direct and personalised information access service and (4) trauma-informed and victim/survivor centred practice in police recordkeeping contexts.Originality/valueThe research addresses a major gap across disciplinary research literature in its focus on the ways investigative information is disclosed by the police to the bereaved following case closure.

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Facilitating access to scene photographs and CCTV footage for relatives bereaved after violent death

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Photo viewing after traumatic death: Finding the missing piece.

Photo viewing after traumatic death: Finding the missing piece.

The Problem of Story: Criminal Evidence, Affect, and Sense-making

Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide

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