Full Description
Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare. Over the years, however, ethnographers in the United States and abroad have amassed an impressive body of work on core criminological topics and groups, including gang members, sex workers, drug dealers, and drug users. Ethnographies on criminal justice institutions have also flourished, with studies on police, courts, and prisons providing deep insights into how these organizations operate and shape the lives of people who encounter them.
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, issues, and debates that crime ethnographers have been grappling with for over a century. This volume brings together an outstanding group of ethnographers to discuss various research traditions, the ethical and pragmatic challenges associated with conducting crime-related fieldwork, relevant policy recommendations for practitioners in the field, and areas of future research for crime ethnographers. In addition to exhaustive overview essays, the handbook also presents case studies that serve as exemplars for how ethnographic inquiry can contribute to our understanding of crime and criminal justice-related topics.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction: The Promises and Challenges of Crime Ethnographies
Kevin D. Haggerty, Sandra Bucerius, and Luca Berardi
Chapter Two: The History of (Crime) Ethnography
Luca Berardi
Chapter Three: Uneasy Relations: Crime Ethnographies and Research Ethics
Kevin D. Haggerty
Chapter Four: Pragmatics of Crime Ethnographies
Sandra Bucerius
Chapter Five: Ethnography and Criminal Cultures
Dick Hobbs
Chapter Six: Politics and Policy
Keith Guzik and Gary T. Marx
Chapter Seven: Mixed Methods
Nigel G. Fielding
Chapter Eight: Team Ethnographies in Studying Crime and Criminal Justice
Heith Copes and Lynne Vieraitis
Chapter Nine: Global Crime Ethnographies: Three Suggestions for a Criminology That Truly Travels
Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal
Chapter Ten: Case Study: "Tell mom I said hi": Confronting positionality in fieldwork
Holly Pelvin
Chapter Eleven: Cultural Criminology and Ethnography
Jeff Ferrell
Chapter Twelve: Studying the Gang Through Critical Ethnography
David Brotherton
Chapter Thirteen: Narrative Criminology and Ethnography
Jennifer Fleetwood and Sveinung Sandberg
Chapter Fourteen: Queer Criminology and Ethnography
Vanessa R. Panfil
Chapter Fifteen: Feminist Ethnographies
Korey Tillman and Ranita Ray
Chapter Sixteen: A Tour of Gang Ethnographies
Elke Van Hellemont
Chapter Seventeen: Entering the Street Field: A Case Study on Gangs
Alistair Fraser
Chapter Eighteen: Ethnographies of Organized Crime
Federico Varese
Chapter Nineteen: Drug Users
J. Bryan Page
Chapter Twenty: Drug Users: A Case Study
Tim Turner and Tony Colombo
Chapter Twenty-One: Nightlife Ethnography: A Phenomenological Approach
Sébastien Tutenges
Chapter Twenty-Two: Ethnographies of Drug Dealers
Ric Curtis and Popy Begum
Chapter Twenty-Three: Terrorism and Terrorists
Natasha B. Khade and Scott Decker
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Police
Simon Holdaway
Chapter Twenty-Five: Case study: Police Labor and Exploitation
Beatrice Jauregui
Chapter Twnety-Six: Court Ethnography
Max Travers
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Prison Ethnography
Jill A. McCorkel
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Prisons: Case Study
Michael L. Walker
Chapter Twenty-Nine: "You Have no Idea What we Do": Correctional Officers, Mental Health, and Prison Ethnography
William Schultz
Chapter Thirty: Ethnographies on Prisoner Reentry
Andrea Leverentz
