Domestic Homicide: A Qualitative Analysis

Qualitative journal article which is chosen to review in this report is ‘The dead end of domestic violence: Spotlight on children’s narratives during forensic investigations following domestic homicide’. This research was conducted by Carmit Katz and published online in June 2014. This study focused on investigative interviews with children who witnessed domestic homicide. The main purpose of this study is to explore the circumstance that the children confronted these incidents (Katz, 2014).
The researcher referred to Shaw (1987) who mentioned about “orphans of justice” as children who lose their parents in domestic homicide events by one’s death and the other’s imprisonment (Katz, 2014). Few studies about domestic homicide were reviewed and

The researcher obviously identified the phenomenon of interest. Moreover, the aim of study was clearly demonstrated in abstract, introduction and also method parts of the article. The previous relevant studies were reviewed to make the readers understand the importance of this phenomenon and which research could be more investigated thoroughly. The researcher comprehensively identified the method in which thematic analysis had been used to analyse the interviewing data. Thematic analysis is one of the most appropriate methods for in-depth interview procedure because the content of speech varies by the experience of the interviewees. The thematic analysis can be applied to analyse the meaning of speech content and reported as the core theme (Reissman, 2008). Thematic analysis emphasises on human’s perceptions, emotions and the incidents related to research questions (Katz, 2014). Within the phenomenological approach, thematic analysis spotlights subjectively on the experience of human. In terms of data analysis, the researcher analysed in an inductive way. The themes discovered were obviously associated with the data because thematic analysis is not link to any pre-existing theoretical framework (Braun & Clarke 2006). This study identified theme in semantic approach rather than latent because the

IPA suits for phenomenological epistemology, which is about understanding people’s experience of reality or questioned phenomenon (John, 2001). The aim of IPA is to describe detailed in-depth analysis of the participants’ experiences in particular incidents. In terms of methodology conducted, IPA studies require small samples, semi-structured interviews, and an inductive approach (Smith et al., 2009) which fit with this current study. IPA can be used broader than thematic analysis (TA) because IPA focuses dually on the individual characteristics of subjects and on paradigm of meaning across subjects while TA has a main focus only on paradigm of meaning across subjects. In terms of data analytic processes, both IPA and TA take into account of coding and theme designing but there are some difference for each method. Coding system in TA, the researcher codes across all the data then collate all significant data at the end of coding process. On the contrary, IPA coding system comprises of initial coding process in which the researcher codes the first data item then amplify theme for that data rather than coding across the whole dataset. As a result in levels of