A Community Responds to Collective Trauma
An Ecological Analysis of the James Byrd Murder in Jasper, Texas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11053285 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Wicke (Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, 4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway University of California 92697-7085 Irvine CA USA), Roxane Cohen Silver (0000-0002-4013-6792, Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, 4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway University of California 92697-7085 Irvine CA USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 233-248 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10464-009-9262-8 |
| PMID | 19830547 |
| PMCID | PMC2788142 |
| OpenAlex | W2154724942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 18 |
The brutal murder of James Byrd Jr. in June 1998 unleashed a storm of media, interest groups, high profile individuals and criticism on the Southeast Texas community of Jasper. The crime and subsequent response—from within the community as well as across the world—engulfed the entire town in a collective trauma. Using natural disaster literature/theory and employing an ecological approach, Jasper, Texas was investigated via an interrupted time series analysis to identify how the community changed as compared to a control community (Center, Texas) on crime, economic, health, educational, and social capital measures collected at multiple pre‐ and post‐crime time points between 1995 and 2003. Differences‐in‐differences (DD) analysis revealed significant post‐event changes in Jasper, as well as a surprising degree of resilience and lack of negative consequences. Interviews with residents conducted between March 2005 and 2007 identified how the community responded to the crisis and augmented quantitative findings with qualitative, field‐informed interpretation. Interviews suggest the intervention of external organizations exacerbated the severity of the events. However, using strengths of specific local social institutions—including faith based, law enforcement, media, business sector and civic government organizations—the community effectively responded to the initial threat and to the potential negative ramifications of external entities
Community organizing · Community resilience · Criminology · Criticism · Government (linguistics) · Health psychology · Intervention (counseling) · Law enforcement · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological resilience · Public health · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Disaster Management and Resilience · Fire effects on ecosystems · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
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| Citation span | 2012 - 2020 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |