J Scott Kenney
Biographic Data
| ID | 94681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Scott Kenney |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenney |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEY J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Western Civilization, Inequality, and the Diversity Shell Game
Can We Talk? Life under Frankfurt Rules
Brought to Light: Contemporary Freemasonry, Meaning, and Society
Illegitimate Pain: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Implications
In this paper, we outline a model of emotional and physical pain that is misunderstood, neglected or stigmatized, conceptualized along dimensions of relative legitimation and physicality. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data from former residents, staff, and faculty of a controversial religious boarding school, we analyze institutional practices that officially delegitimize the pain of individuals or groups, along with the interpersonal and po…
Using the Victim Role as Both Sword and Shield: The Interactional Dynamics of Restorative Justice Sessions
Recently, criminal justice professionals have advocated restorative justice as an alternative to traditional punitive practices. Extant research has not examined the strategic interpersonal dynamics between victims, offenders, supporters, and facilitators during restorative justice sessions. Our ethnographic study addresses this gap. Building on studies of emotion in reintegrative shaming, we explore how shaming emotions are dramaturgically media…
Human Agency Revisited: The Paradoxical Experiences of Victims of Crime
Victims of violent crime often complain of feeling powerless. In some respects this represents a psychological aftereffect of the crime — an experience in which something was done to them against their will that they were powerless either to prevent or to stop. However, focusing attention on the psychological aftereffects of such experiences often overshadows other important considerations. For example, there is the possibility that an accumulati…
Gender Roles and Grief Cycles: Observations on Models of Grief and Coping in Homicide Cases
The literature on bereavement coalesces around three models of grief: (1) stage models; (2) task oriented models; and (3) mental disorders. This paper briefly introduces these dominant paradigms and argues that their implicit gender neutrality ignores a not inconsiderable literature on gender and grief. Furthermore, it presents relevant data from a qualitative study of the families of homicide victims. After reviewing survivors' coping attempts, …
Metaphors of Loss: Murder, Bereavement, Gender, and Presentation of the ‘Victimized’ Self
When a loved one is murdered, there is a profound impact on the selves of those left behind. In this paper, three competing conceptions of self are considered in order to help us to understand the impact on the social selves of such survivors, and the pragmatic ways in which selves struggle with this event in their social interactions. Building upon the insights of earlier work on victimization, bereavement, gender and self, a qualitative study o…
Victims of Crime and Labeling Theory: A Parallel Process
Labeling theory tends to focus largely on the offender. Yet, implicit in interactionist theories of deviance is a concern for the social situation as a whole. This logically includes the victim of crime. This article explores the potential of extending the interactionist perspective on deviance to the experiences of victims of crime. Specifically, I outline a parallel labeling process for victims in which differential social reactions to this sta…
The Experience of Happiness: A Sociological Investigation
The following study attempts to investigate the emotion of happiness from a sociological perspective. By developing an interactional model integrating social definitions of the self, cognitive definitions of emotion and various cultural beliefs, this fundamental emotion is examined in detail. Of central concern in this endeavor is a fourfold typology of perceptual and evaluative beliefs that individuals hold in relation to the self that enable th…
Legal Institutions and Victims of Crime in Canada: An Historical and Contemporary Review
Victims of Crime and Labeling Theory: A Parallel Process
Labeling theory tends to focus largely on the offender. Yet, implicit in interactionist theories of deviance is a concern for the social situation as a whole. This logically includes the victim of crime. This article explores the potential of extending the interactionist perspective on deviance to the experiences of victims of crime. Specifically, I outline a parallel labeling process for victims in which differential social reactions to this sta…
Human Agency Revisited: The Paradoxical Experiences of Victims of Crime
Victims of violent crime often complain of feeling powerless. In some respects this represents a psychological aftereffect of the crime — an experience in which something was done to them against their will that they were powerless either to prevent or to stop. However, focusing attention on the psychological aftereffects of such experiences often overshadows other important considerations. For example, there is the possibility that an accumulati…
Gender Roles and Grief Cycles: Observations on Models of Grief and Coping in Homicide Cases
The literature on bereavement coalesces around three models of grief: (1) stage models; (2) task oriented models; and (3) mental disorders. This paper briefly introduces these dominant paradigms and argues that their implicit gender neutrality ignores a not inconsiderable literature on gender and grief. Furthermore, it presents relevant data from a qualitative study of the families of homicide victims. After reviewing survivors' coping attempts, …
Metaphors of Loss: Murder, Bereavement, Gender, and Presentation of the ‘Victimized’ Self
When a loved one is murdered, there is a profound impact on the selves of those left behind. In this paper, three competing conceptions of self are considered in order to help us to understand the impact on the social selves of such survivors, and the pragmatic ways in which selves struggle with this event in their social interactions. Building upon the insights of earlier work on victimization, bereavement, gender and self, a qualitative study o…
Illegitimate Pain: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Implications
In this paper, we outline a model of emotional and physical pain that is misunderstood, neglected or stigmatized, conceptualized along dimensions of relative legitimation and physicality. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data from former residents, staff, and faculty of a controversial religious boarding school, we analyze institutional practices that officially delegitimize the pain of individuals or groups, along with the interpersonal and po…
Using the Victim Role as Both Sword and Shield: The Interactional Dynamics of Restorative Justice Sessions
Recently, criminal justice professionals have advocated restorative justice as an alternative to traditional punitive practices. Extant research has not examined the strategic interpersonal dynamics between victims, offenders, supporters, and facilitators during restorative justice sessions. Our ethnographic study addresses this gap. Building on studies of emotion in reintegrative shaming, we explore how shaming emotions are dramaturgically media…
Legal Institutions and Victims of Crime in Canada: An Historical and Contemporary Review
Legal Institutions and Victims of Crime in Canada: An Historical and Contemporary Review
The Experience of Happiness: A Sociological Investigation
The following study attempts to investigate the emotion of happiness from a sociological perspective. By developing an interactional model integrating social definitions of the self, cognitive definitions of emotion and various cultural beliefs, this fundamental emotion is examined in detail. Of central concern in this endeavor is a fourfold typology of perceptual and evaluative beliefs that individuals hold in relation to the self that enable th…
Metaphors of Loss: Murder, Bereavement, Gender, and Presentation of the ‘Victimized’ Self
When a loved one is murdered, there is a profound impact on the selves of those left behind. In this paper, three competing conceptions of self are considered in order to help us to understand the impact on the social selves of such survivors, and the pragmatic ways in which selves struggle with this event in their social interactions. Building upon the insights of earlier work on victimization, bereavement, gender and self, a qualitative study o…
Victims of Crime and Labeling Theory: A Parallel Process
Labeling theory tends to focus largely on the offender. Yet, implicit in interactionist theories of deviance is a concern for the social situation as a whole. This logically includes the victim of crime. This article explores the potential of extending the interactionist perspective on deviance to the experiences of victims of crime. Specifically, I outline a parallel labeling process for victims in which differential social reactions to this sta…
Gender Roles and Grief Cycles: Observations on Models of Grief and Coping in Homicide Cases
The literature on bereavement coalesces around three models of grief: (1) stage models; (2) task oriented models; and (3) mental disorders. This paper briefly introduces these dominant paradigms and argues that their implicit gender neutrality ignores a not inconsiderable literature on gender and grief. Furthermore, it presents relevant data from a qualitative study of the families of homicide victims. After reviewing survivors' coping attempts, …
Human Agency Revisited: The Paradoxical Experiences of Victims of Crime
Victims of violent crime often complain of feeling powerless. In some respects this represents a psychological aftereffect of the crime — an experience in which something was done to them against their will that they were powerless either to prevent or to stop. However, focusing attention on the psychological aftereffects of such experiences often overshadows other important considerations. For example, there is the possibility that an accumulati…
Using the Victim Role as Both Sword and Shield: The Interactional Dynamics of Restorative Justice Sessions
Recently, criminal justice professionals have advocated restorative justice as an alternative to traditional punitive practices. Extant research has not examined the strategic interpersonal dynamics between victims, offenders, supporters, and facilitators during restorative justice sessions. Our ethnographic study addresses this gap. Building on studies of emotion in reintegrative shaming, we explore how shaming emotions are dramaturgically media…
Illegitimate Pain: Dimensions, Dynamics, and Implications
In this paper, we outline a model of emotional and physical pain that is misunderstood, neglected or stigmatized, conceptualized along dimensions of relative legitimation and physicality. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data from former residents, staff, and faculty of a controversial religious boarding school, we analyze institutional practices that officially delegitimize the pain of individuals or groups, along with the interpersonal and po…
Brought to Light: Contemporary Freemasonry, Meaning, and Society
Can We Talk? Life under Frankfurt Rules
Western Civilization, Inequality, and the Diversity Shell Game
Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works)