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ICPR guest-edited blog 6 – Voicing Loss: ‘I know it’s all about the death, but somehow it becomes about their life when you’ve got the inquest’

By Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray and Lorna Templeton| 2025-02-12T10:55:16+00:00 January 23rd, 2025|Categories: Blog Posts, current series, Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Guest Series|Tags: bereaved people, coroner, coronial process, deceased person, inclusion, inquest, participation|0 Comments

Jessica Jacobson, Alexandra Murray and Lorna Templeton This is the second blog post about the project Voicing Loss, which explored the role of bereaved people in coroners’ inquests in England and Wales. Voicing Loss was funded by the ESRC (grant reference ES/V002732/1) and conducted by the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at Birkbeck [...]

ICPR Guest Edited Blog – Voicing Loss: ‘I needed more than answers’

Jessica Jacobson and Alexandra Murray (image credit Tyla Scott Owen, tylascott1998@gmail.com) In England and Wales, coroners are independent judicial officers with responsibility for investigating deaths suspected to have been violent or unnatural, where the cause of death is unknown, or where the person died while in prison or another form of state detention. The purpose of the investigation [...]