Qualitative Research in Criminology (1999)
By: editors, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup
Contributors: Noaks, Lesley, editor; Wincup, Emma, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781351141444; 9781351141437; 9781351141413
Subjects: Criminology; Research methods; Criminologie
Notes: "Published in 1999, this text brings together detailed reflexive accounts of authors' experiences of conducting research on a variety of criminological topics. The broad aim of the book is to critically review how qualitative methods can be effectively deployed in the area of criminology. The conclusions reached in the text are diverse, reflecting the range of qualitative methods considered and the particular criminological topics to which they are applied. A common theme throughout is that whilst qualitative research can help to provide valid and meaningful information on criminological issues, researchers need to carefully reflect upon both the methodological and ethical dimensions of their work. The book will appeal to those who wish to understand the experience of conducting qualitative research on aspects of crime and criminal justice. This will include undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research for the first time, as well as experienced researchers and teachers. This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part, one The process of criminalisation --; title: chapter Introduction  -- Fiona Brookman Lesley Noaks Emma Wincup; title: chapter 1 The Public Order Act 1936 and the Greenshirt Movement for Social Credit  -- Mark Drakeford; title: chapter 2 Investigating a 'criminal' public sphere: reflexivity, law and class struggle  -- John Michael Roberts; title: chapter 3 Accessing and analysing police murder files  -- Fiona Brookman; title: chapter 4 Social constructions of violence against the police  -- Mike Levi Lesley Noaks; title: chapter 5 Accessing a demonised subculture: studying drug use and violence among bodybuilders  -- Lee Monaghan; title: chapter 6 'Rape from afar': men exposing to women and children  -- Rosalind Beck; title: part, two Responses to crime and criminal activity --; title: chapter 7 Researching women awaiting trial: dilemmas of feminist ethnography  -- Emma Wincup; title: chapter 8 Oral history and the cultures of the police  -- Tom Cockcroft; title: chapter 9 Cops for hire: methodological issues in researching private policing  -- Lesley Noaks; title: chapter 10 Organised Crime in Mexico  -- Alejandra Gomez-Cespedes; title: chapter 11 The social construction of fraud, trust, abuse and the private victim -- Andy Pithouse.