Community Grieving: Homicides

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Homicide is a broad concept that can be approach as a devastating event that can tear a family apart. Homicide to its core means the killing of a human being by another human. Now homicide can be further divide, and so we can study if the killing was intentional or accidental, and so on and so forth. The way a community views grieve on homicide is viewed as a tragedy to lose a love one on an unexpected event. Therefore, homicide affects the community as viewing a traumatic event rather than a foreseen event.
With the recent events that occurred at Fort Hood, Texas, just a few years after a mass-shooting happened at the military base, brings to question how safe are people who live close to this facility? Not only do the families of the deceased suffer but also the community as well, as they would question what would prevent something like this from happening again. Parent’s doubt the security of establishments that once were thought to be havens for their children, for a parent is hard not to think about their children especially when they can be in the middle of an emergency without previous warning. (Bailey, Hannays-King, Clarke, Lester, & Velasco, 2013) Homicides likes those are classified as mass-murders as the lives of many innocents are taken away. Homicides are traumatic and life changing and often required the intervention of professional counseling to help the person grieving overcome the event as this is a sudden event that can change the life of any immediate relative of the deceased. (Lee, 2013, p.89)
Homicide is a very common topic as we see it happening in our cities far too often and it is sad, that in a developed country such as this, killing another human being still happens. It is hard not to come across and no...

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...matic because they did not get to say their good byes and learn how to live their lives without them.

Bibliography
Bailey, A., Hannays-King, C., Clarke, J., Lester, E., & Velasco, D. (2013). Black Mothers' Cognitive Process of Finding Meaning and Building Resilience after Loss of a Child to Gun Violence. British Journal of Social Work, 336-354.
Johnson, C. M. (2010). African-American Teen Girls Grieve the Loss of Friends to Homicide: Meaning Making and Resilience. Omega: Journal of Death & Dying, 121-143.
Johnson, R. (2008). Community grieves for homicide victims in Grayson County: Hundreds of people paid their respects to Ron and Fred Hudler, who along with John Miller were killed Jan. 24 near the Virginia border. Virginia: Business Insight: Essentials.
Lee, J. H. (FALL 2013). SCHOOL SHOOTINGS IN THE U.S. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: ANALYSIS THROUGH THE EYES OF AN EDUCATOR.

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