| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 103 === Forgiveness has long been discussed and researched as a theme in theology, philosophy, and ethics. In the last two or three decades, there have been a lot of scientific empirical researches about forgiveness in the field of psychology (treatment). However, there is very little discussion of forgiveness in criminology. When homicide happens, the media and the public try to figure out the perpetrator's motive and the course of offense and whether the offender expresses remorse and apology. There are cases that the victim survivor expresses that he/she is willing to forgive the murderer of his/her loved ones. And it would become the focus of much attention and discussion.
The purpose of this research is to understand the victim survivors' cognition, motivation, the internal and external factors, the construction of the course of forgiveness and the impact and change that it has brought about and also to explore the influence of public opinion, judicial procedures, their participation of the Restorative Justice Program on victim survivors' choice to forgive.
By qualitative research method, in-depth interviews with five survivors of homicide victims would be conducted after making a list of interviewees by surveying the newspaper reports, then contacting them through the referral of individuals or institutions familiar with the interviewees and finally being granted the consent to the interview. The interviews would be classified and clustered and then be encoded by the same or similar nature of the information. Classification and summarization of related topics would be conducted based on Enright's process model of forgiveness and Enright's process model of forgiveness intervention as well as Spring's acceptance theory.
The respondents' narration shows the impact of homicide on the survivors, the impact of confronting the perpetrators and the public, their experiences and suggestions after going through the judicial procedures and the participation in the Restorative Justice Program, their cognition of forgiveness, their course of forgiveness and the respondent mechanism between to forgive and not to forgive. Finally, according to the findings of the research, the five respondents' course of forgiveness would be conducted and the life stories of their choice to forgive would be told in the narrative style based on the five phases: "feeling hurt", "being aware of the impact of negative emotions", "deciding to choose forgiveness as the solution to the problem (the formation of the idea of forgiveness)", "execution of forgiveness from the inside out" and "bearing the fruit of forgiveness".
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