Interviewing Elites Experts And The Powerful In Criminology

Author : Olga Petintseva,Rita Faria,Yarin Eski
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030330002

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Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology by Olga Petintseva,Rita Faria,Yarin Eski Pdf

This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which include: access, power imbalances, getting past ‘corporate answers’, considerations of whether or not it is at times acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to students and scholars conducting qualitative research.

Author : Rita Faria,Mary Dodge
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031184017

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Qualitative Research in Criminology by Rita Faria,Mary Dodge Pdf

This volume introduces innovative and inspired qualitative methods through topics on crime commission, victimisation and crime control. It highlights how qualitative methods offer significant insights that frame our understanding of the narratives, events, theoretical perspectives, and realities of the social world. This book includes chapters discussing cutting-edge methods, which demonstrate how qualitative research can expand beyond traditional approaches. It offers diversity in research, including gender, race, and geographic sensitivities. The volume addresses a multitude of approaches for using qualitative methodologies, including innovative uses of technology mediums—such as social media, participatory videos, Zoom interviewing, and photographic visual methods—as means of collecting and co-producing relevant data on meaning. Ultimately, this book illustrates how qualitative criminology allows for deeper and more nuanced understandings of local and regional specificities in a globalized world, and how social interactions are influenced by individual interpretations, social interactions, and collective decision making. This volume is an essential read for graduate students and researchers in criminology and other social science disciplines interested in qualitative empirical research and informed policy making.

Author : Antonio M. Díaz-Fernández,Cristina Del-Real,Lorena Molnar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031415746

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Fieldwork Experiences in Criminology and Security Studies by Antonio M. Díaz-Fernández,Cristina Del-Real,Lorena Molnar Pdf

This book compiles the fieldwork experiences of 55 researchers, addressing the challenges, ethical considerations, and methodologies employed to study 30 diverse populations and phenomena within Criminology and Security Studies. This volume contributes to filling a gap in academic literature by highlighting the often unspoken realities and intricacies of fieldwork. The book is systematically structured into five thematic sections: The Powerful, The Invisible, The Vulnerable, The Violent, and The Cyber. These categories encompass various aspects and dimensions of fieldwork, including managing emotional distress, negotiating access through gatekeepers, ensuring the protection of informants, and exercising discretion in navigating sensitive issues. As a scholarly resource, this book is invaluable for academics, practitioners, and students involved in criminology, security studies, anthropology, sociology, and political science. By offering in-depth reflections and insights, this volume enhances the reader’s understanding of the nuances of fieldwork, and informs the development of robust and ethical research practices. Chapters 2, 9 and 11 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Susan Dewey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520393691

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Gun Present by Susan Dewey Pdf

Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of prosecutors’ work. Built on an immersive, community-based participatory partnership between researchers and criminal justice professionals, Gun Present chronicles how a justice assemblage comprising institutional structures and practices, relationships and roles, and individual moral and emotional worlds informs the day-to-day administration of justice. Weaving together in-depth interviews, quantitative analysis of more than a thousand criminal cases, analysis of trial transcripts, and over a year of ethnographic observations, Gun Present provides a model for scholar-practitioner collaborations.

Author : Christopher Williams
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446267967

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Researching Power, Elites and Leadership by Christopher Williams Pdf

This exciting new text consolidates the hows and whys of researching powerful people. Written by a leading authority in the field, this book introduces the reader to a significant area of methodology, and provides a research-based contribution to elite and leadership studies. It offers a truly international perspective that will appeal to those studying and engaging with powerful people in a variety of contexts. Useful features include: - A variety of case studies and examples linked to over 1000 sources and resources - Extensive use of figures throughout the text to illustrate key points - Templates and models for planning and presentations The book promotes a practical future-oriented approach to support and inspire academic, professional and civil society researchers at all levels. It introduces new research frameworks and facilitates critical techniques through Critical Process Analysis. This is a must-have resource and an excellent new addition to the field of elite and leadership studies.

Author : Rosalind Edwards,Janet Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350275140

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Qualitative Interviewing by Rosalind Edwards,Janet Holland Pdf

First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is a step-by-step guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illustrations of qualitative interviewing in practice, and the use of a range of creative interview tools. This new and expanded edition includes: - recent developments in the radical critique of interviews debate focusing on form and content of interviews; - the strategic shift to online interviewing in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; - discussion of the decolonization of methodology and research, and the growing attention to indigenous methodologies for generating data; - an assessment of the changing landscape for qualitative interviewing. The authors explore the use of new technologies as well as issues around asking and listening, and power dynamics in research. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book concludes with an updated annotated bibliography of key texts and journals in the field.

Author : Andreas Witzel,Herwig Reiter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446291597

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The Problem-Centred Interview by Andreas Witzel,Herwig Reiter Pdf

This book provides the first English language account of the interview method known as the PCI. Offering a way of collecting knowledge by means of involving people actively in the research process, the interviewer takes the role of a well-informed traveller. With careful preparation and planning, the interviewer sets out with priorities and expectations, but the story the interviewer tells about his journey depends on the people encountered along the road. Novice and experienced interview researchers across the social, educational and health sciences will find this an invaluable guide to conducting interviews. Andreas Witzel is senior researcher (retired) at the University of Bremen and former director of the Bremen Archive for Life Course Research. Herwig Reiter is senior researcher in the Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology of the German Youth Institute in Munich.

Author : John Pratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134173297

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Penal Populism by John Pratt Pdf

Following the USA, in many Western countries over the last decade, prison rates have increased while crime rates have declined. This key book examines the role played by penal populism on this and other trends in contemporary penal policy.

Author : Rosaline Barbour
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781446296226

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Introducing Qualitative Research by Rosaline Barbour Pdf

Rosaline Barbour draws on her extensive teaching experience to provide a clear, user-friendly introduction to the craft of doing qualitative research. Each chapter includes examples of real-life qualitative data and a range of exercises to help students get a feel for the process of generating and analysing qualitative data. The second edition includes: New examples from a range of social science disciplines, making this the perfect book no matter what course you're studying More on unobtrusive methods of data collection, such as documentary analysis More on internet research methods, mixed methods and visual methods A new section on using software in qualitative research A brand new companion website full of additional lecturer and student resources.

Author : Kate Herrity,Bethany E. Schmidt,Jason Warr
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839097287

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Sensory Penalities by Kate Herrity,Bethany E. Schmidt,Jason Warr Pdf

Sensory Penalties aims to reinvigorate a conversation about the role of sensory experience in empirical investigation. It explores the visceral, personal reflections buried within forgotten criminological field notes, to ask what privileging these sensorial experiences does for how we understand and research spaces of punishment and social control.

Author : Stefan Fafinski
Publisher : Willan
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134027798

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Computer Misuse by Stefan Fafinski Pdf

This book is concerned with the nature of computer misuse and the legal and extra-legal responses to it. It explores what is meant by the term 'computer misuse' and charts its emergence as a problem as well as its expansion in parallel with the continued progression in computing power, networking, reach and accessibility. In doing so, it surveys the attempts of the domestic criminal law to deal with some early manifestations of computer misuse and the consequent legislative passage of the Computer Misuse Act 1990. This book will be of interest to students of IT law as well as to sociologists and criminologists, and those who have a professional concern with preventing computer misuse and fraud.

Author : John Braithwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135094430

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Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals) by John Braithwaite Pdf

First published in 1979, Inequality, Crime, and Public Policy integrates and interprets the vast corpus of existing research on social class, slums, and crime, and presents its own findings on these matters. It explores two major questions. First, do policies designed to redistribute wealth and power within capitalist societies have effects upon crime? Second, do policies created to overcome the residential segregation of social classes have effects on crime? The book provides a brilliantly comprehensive and systematic review of the empirical evidence to support or refute the classic theories of Engles, Bonger, Merton, Cloward and Ohlin, Cohen, Miller, Shaw and McKay, amongst many others. Braithwaite confronts these theories with evidence of the extent and nature of white collar crime, and a consideration of the way law enhancement and law enforcement might serve class interest.

Author : Frank Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Commercial crimes
ISBN : OCLC:2653472

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Crimes of the Powerful by Frank Pearce Pdf

Author : Svend Brinkmann,Steinar Kvale
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781526426079

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Doing Interviews by Svend Brinkmann,Steinar Kvale Pdf

This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.

Author : Fredrik deBoer
Publisher : All Points Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781250200389

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The Cult of Smart by Fredrik deBoer Pdf

Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.