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Originally Posted by junction29
Hi DougB and everyone else,
I will ask her, but from what little she has told us, we think that this survey is just one amongst several that she is doing and then collating the various responses to arrive at some conclusions - we think!
If it helps to better understand victims, how they are affected by what they have gone through and how to help them get over it then we are all for it.
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That sounds good. I remember that it took a while for the results of the study I was in the Stress and Health Project at the UCSF Health Services Campus. This was a study on stress on the unemployed. I pushed quite hard in 1990-1991 about being honest about the niche in practical materials for survivors of crimes while still in the employ of the University of Minnesota Law Library and was met with suggestions that I see the University psychologist or that it looked like I needed to see a psychologist who as far as I know would be one approved by the University if I wanted to keep my job and references. I found this a nasty tactic of putting the issue on the person --shooting the messenger-- rather than addressing the issue of what materials they had in or accessible through their libraries.
In the UCSF Medical School study in 17 weeks in 1992-1993 I was subject #613 with a Researcher named Myra Young under the direction of Drs Frances Cohen, Leonard Zegans, Kathleen Kearney and M.P.H. Wendy Berland.
I mentioned all these experiences at the University of Minnesota Law School Library during the four taped interviews with Myra Young who said nothing during the 17 weeks about all my suffering for basically just being honest about a niche in services for victims in the area of law librarianship. After the last interview was done and so as not to influence the amount of chemicals in my blood from the stress of being unemployed, Ms. Young told me I had a good cause.
I started using #613 that summer of 1993 along with my birthday of 224 to try to shine a spotlight about using labels of mental illness or the hint of mental illness to cover up problems in some institutions policies or other matters. Of course, I also wanted to address the issue of access to practical materials which are in the various libraries in the US.
So, I do really think that this study by your granddaughter will help. I had written victimologists in the UK and elsewhere in the 90s.
Of course, I had to also face extreme discrimination for writing so many people as it really put my former employer in a very bad light. The University of Minnesota Law School professors had voted not to renew my employment contract but I do remember some of them fighting to keep me on even though my grades were not all that good. I had been a Student Director for Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners (LAMP), however, and it was quite obvious I could be objective about helping library patrons find their needed materials as well as help prisoners at Minnesota Correctional Facility--Stillwater with their various civil problems. The University of Minnesota Law School (Class of 1989) was ranked around 17th in the US according to a number of different surveys in 1986. So, even though I was near the bottom of my law school graduated class of 1989 there were a huge number of law students in lesser ranked law schools whom I had bested in the LSAT to get into a very well ranked law school. I had also worked my way through law school at the Minneapolis Public Library, one summer at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners and then at the University of Minnesota Law Library.
I am still paying off my law school loans even though my 25th Law School Re-union will be this year (2014). Cannot really say I have much of a desire to go. I was kind of abandoned by my law school friends as they did not want to have to face the wrath of the University of Minnesota Law School or at least the appearance of this wrath as I got the impression that some of the law school professors were still fighting for me. I was never really sure just whom I could trust there at the University of Minnesota Law School however.