Research Methods
A Qualitative Reader
Published on 24. August 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-13-169025-7 (ISBN)
Description
For undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Research Methods in Criminal Justice departments.
This practical new text exposes students to the realities of research, and focuses on the planning, design, conduct, analysis, and ethical aspects of qualitative research. Using real-world examples, student-friendly discussions and ample illustrations, students will learn how the processes and decisions of qualitative work produce theoretically and pragmatically important research findings.
This practical new text exposes students to the realities of research, and focuses on the planning, design, conduct, analysis, and ethical aspects of qualitative research. Using real-world examples, student-friendly discussions and ample illustrations, students will learn how the processes and decisions of qualitative work produce theoretically and pragmatically important research findings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-169025-7 (9780131690257)
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Content
I. CRIME AND DEVIANCE WORK.
1. Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant, Richard Tewksbury.
2. Covert Participation Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method, J. Mitchell Miller.
3. Criminological "Verstehen": Inside the Immediacy of Crime, Jeff Ferrell.
4. Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage, Ken Tunnell.
II. DOWN AND DIRTY ETHNOGRAPHY: ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.
1. Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research, Richard Tewksbury and Patricia Gagne.
2. A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars, Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, and Dietrich L. Smith.
3. Drug Enforcement's Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs, J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva.
4. Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore.
5. The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Examination of the Gambling Business in Vietnamese Cafes, Tomson H. Nguyen, "Deviant Behavior."
6. Graduating from the Field: Disengaging from Ethnographic Field Sites, Richard Tewksbury.
III. DANGER & STIGMA IN CRIME AND DEVIANCE FIELDWORK.
1. Personal Safety in Dangerous Places, Terry Williams, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid.
2. `God, She's Gonna Report Me': The Ethics of Child Protection in Poverty Research, Lisa Bostock.
3. Studying Sexuality: Strategies for Surviving Stigma, Tania Israel.
4. Sex with Informants as Deviant Behavior: An Account and Commentary, Erich Goode.
5. On Having One's Research Seized, David Sonenschein.
6. Collecting Sensitive Data: The Impact on Researchers, Barbara Johnson and Jill Macleod Clarke.
1. Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant, Richard Tewksbury.
2. Covert Participation Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method, J. Mitchell Miller.
3. Criminological "Verstehen": Inside the Immediacy of Crime, Jeff Ferrell.
4. Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage, Ken Tunnell.
II. DOWN AND DIRTY ETHNOGRAPHY: ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH.
1. Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research, Richard Tewksbury and Patricia Gagne.
2. A Snowball's Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars, Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, and Dietrich L. Smith.
3. Drug Enforcement's Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs, J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva.
4. Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore.
5. The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Examination of the Gambling Business in Vietnamese Cafes, Tomson H. Nguyen, "Deviant Behavior."
6. Graduating from the Field: Disengaging from Ethnographic Field Sites, Richard Tewksbury.
III. DANGER & STIGMA IN CRIME AND DEVIANCE FIELDWORK.
1. Personal Safety in Dangerous Places, Terry Williams, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid.
2. `God, She's Gonna Report Me': The Ethics of Child Protection in Poverty Research, Lisa Bostock.
3. Studying Sexuality: Strategies for Surviving Stigma, Tania Israel.
4. Sex with Informants as Deviant Behavior: An Account and Commentary, Erich Goode.
5. On Having One's Research Seized, David Sonenschein.
6. Collecting Sensitive Data: The Impact on Researchers, Barbara Johnson and Jill Macleod Clarke.