Authors: J. Mitchell Miller
ISBN-13: 9780131690257, ISBN-10: 0131690256
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Date Published: July 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
This practical new book exposes readers to the realities of criminal research, and focuses on the planning, design, conduct, analysis, and ethical aspects of this qualitative research. Using real-world examples, reader-friendly discussions and ample illustrations, you will learn how the processes and decisions of qualitative work produce theoretically and pragmatically important research findings. Well-written and understandable articles demonstrate such topics as crime and deviance fieldwork, ethnography, and the danger and stigma in crime and deviance fieldwork. An excellent book for those in the field of criminal justice and research fieldworkers.
Pt. 1 | Crime and deviance fieldwork | 1 |
Acting like an insider : studying hidden environments as a potential participant | 3 | |
Covert participant observation : reconsidering the least used method | 12 | |
Criminological Verstehen : inside the immediacy of crime | 20 | |
Honesty, secrecy, and deception in the sociology of crime : confessions and reflections from the backstage | 38 | |
Pt. 2 | Down and dirty ethnography : illustrations of qualitative research | 48 |
Assumed and presumed identities : problems of self-presentation in field research | 51 | |
A snowball's chance in hell : doing fieldwork with active residential burglars | 74 | |
Drug enforcement's double-edged sword : an assessment of asset forfeiture programs | 83 | |
Women in outlaw motorcycle gangs | 102 | |
The business of illegal gambling : an examination of the gambling business in Vietnamese cafes | 119 | |
Graduating from the field : disengaging from ethnographic field sites | 129 | |
Pt. 3 | Danger & stigma in crime and deviance fieldwork | 144 |
Personal safety in dangerous places | 147 | |
"God, she's gonna report me" : the ethics of child protection in poverty research | 168 | |
Studying sexuality : strategies for surviving stigma | 180 | |
Sex with informants as deviant behavior : an account and commentary | 185 | |
On having one's research seized | 204 | |
Collecting sensitive data : the impact on researchers | 211 |