1st Edition

Qualitative Research in Criminology (1999)

Edited By Fiona Brookman, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup Copyright 1999
194 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction, Brookman, Noaks, Wincup. Part I: The Process of Criminalization. 1. The Public Order Act 1936 and the Greenshirt Movement for Social Credit, Drakeford. 2. Investigating a ‘Criminal’ Public Sphere: Reflexivity, Law and Class Struggle, Roberts. 3. Accessing and Analyzing Police Murder Files, Brookman. 4. Social Constructions of Violence Against the Police, Levi, Noaks. 5. Accessing a Demonized Subculture: Studying Drug Use and Violence Among Bodybuilders, Monaghan. 6. ‘Rape from Afar’: Men Exposing to Women and Children, Beck. Part II: Responses to Crime and Criminal Activity. 7. Researching Women Awaiting Trial: Dilemmas of Feminist Ethnography, Wincup. 8. Oral History and the Cultures of the Police, Cockcroft. 9. Cops for Hire: Methodological Issues in Researching Private Policing, Noaks. 10. Organized Crime in Mexico, Gomez-Cespedes. 11. The Social Construction of Fraud, Trust, Abuse and the Private Victim, Pithouse.

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Fiona Brookman, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup