Qualitative Research in Criminology

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 mediumssuch as social media, participatory videos, Zoom interviewing, and photographic visual methodsas 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.

Includes voices of researchers implementing edge-work on crime, deviance, social control and victimization

Provides a broad and up-to-date overview of qualitative research methods in Criminology

Introduces cutting-edge qualitative approaches often ignored in traditional criminology books

Auteur

Rita Faria, School of Criminology and Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security, University of Porto

Rita Faria is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology - University of Porto, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security and Director of the only Ph.D. program in Criminology in Portugal. She earned her Ph.D in Criminology in 2016, and has a B.A. in Law and an M.A. in Sociology. Currently, she is co-chair of the Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies (WG-QRME) and president of the Working Group on Organisational Crime (EUROC), both from the European Society of Criminology. She has extensive experience in teaching, supervising and researching and her preferred topics of research include white-collar, occupational and corporate crime and, more recently, environmental crimes. She has also developed her expertise on the uses of qualitative methods in criminological research and on ethics and integrity in research. Mary Dodge, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver

Mary Dodge earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in criminology, law and society from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is a full professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School of Public Affairs. She and Gilbert Geis co-edited the book Lessons of Criminology and share authorship on the book Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal. She is the author of Women and White-Collar Crime and co-author of Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change. She is the recipient of numerous University awards for excellence in teaching, research, and service. Her applied and policy research involves collaboration with law enforcement agencies including organizational assessments, victims focus groups, system responses to sexual assault victims, driving under the influence of marijuana, and research with California POST.

Contenu
Part I. Adapting to a New World.- Chapter 1. Photo-Based Research with Vulnerable Groups: Breaking Frames for Researchers, Participants, and Audiences.- Chapter 2. Breaking the Shackles of Academic Capitalism: Academic Life, Liberation and Ethnographic Innovation.- Chapter 3. Mixed Methods: A Justification, Explication, and Example.- Part II. The Growing Relevance of the Online World.- Chapter 4. Smart Researching in Criminology: Virtual Ethnography at the Edge.- Chapter 5. Researching Political Corruption and White-Collar Crime on the Internet .- Chapter 6. Online Methods in Qualitative Criminology.- Part III. Methodological Innovations.- Chapter 7. Trigger Warnings, Feeling Rules and Other Lessons from the Inside: The Emotional Labour of Qualitative Prison Research .- Chapter 8. Sensory Heteroglossia and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.- Chapter 9. Towards visual and sensory methodologies in Green Cultural Criminology.- Part IV. The Connecting Power of Languages.- Chapter 10. How to Deal with Doing Social Inequality by Doing Criminological (Qualitative) Research.- Chapter 11. Shooting Poachers on Site: Reflections in the Use of Photography in Active Offender Research.- Chapter 12. Language Matters: Doing Systematic (Critical) Discourse Analysis in Crimininology .- Part V. Praxis: Pondering and Publishing.- Chapter 13. The Future is Already Here: Covid-19, Criminology, and Crime.- Chapter 14. Being ethical in research.- Chapter 15. What Now and How? Publishing the Qualitative Journal Article.