Facing the Demons' (A Study Guide)

This is a study guide for the film Facing the Demons (Aviva Ziegler, 1999). In Facing the Demons, friends and family of eighteen-year-old murder victim Michael Marslew confront two of the four offenders several years after the armed robbery that took his life. The dramatic 'conference' provides an opportunity for everyone to address unresolved feelings and questions about the tragic event that so harshly affected their lives. Our existing criminal justice system provides no such opportunity – but conferencing advocates say that it should. This study guide is relevant to studies of English, Society and Culture, Psychology and Legal Studies.