The following is excerpted from an online article posted HealthDay
Grieving friends and family of homicide victims or missing people often feel pressure these days to participate in true crime podcasts or documentaries, in hopes their testimonials will help catch the killer.
But this relationship is not very healthy for those trying to cope with their loss, recent research argues.
True crime productions often add to the trauma experienced by victims’ loved ones, researchers report in a pair of studies published in the journals Mass Communication and Society and Crime Media Culture.
These “co-victims” often come away with lost privacy and a sense of being exploited, and must balance that against their desire to keep the case in the media spotlight, researchers said.
“There’s a horrible intrusiveness that’s never going to go away and often, it’s going to be covered for the rest of their lives,” researcher Kelli Boling said in a news release. She’s an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Source: HealthDay
https://www.healthday.com/health-news/mental-health/the-dark-side-of-true-crime-reporting