Full Description
This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship.
Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method, theory building, theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies, from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research.
Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice.
Contents
Introduction: The Value of Qualitative Research for Advancing Criminological Theory Jody Miller and Wilson R. PalaciosPart I. Qualitative Criminology: History and Epistemology1. Criminal Practice: Fieldwork and Improvisation in Difficult Circumstances Dick Hobbs 2. Kites from Drug Research Rehab Michael Agar 3. Qualitative Research as Theorizing Peter K. ManningPart II. Narratives, Biography, and Cultural Meanings of Crime4. Psychosocial Criminology: Making Sense of Senseless Violence David Gadd and Mary-Louise Corr 5. Research Strategies for Narrative Criminology Lois Presser and Sveinung Sandberg 6. The Culture of Violent Behavior: Language, Culture, and Worldview of Prison Rape Mark S. FleisherPart III. Positionality and the Study of Criminalized Social Worlds7. Being Trusted with Inside Knowledge: Ethnographic Research with Male Muslim Drug Dealers Sandra M. Bucerius 8. Recalling to Life: Understanding Stickup Kids through Insider Qualitative Research Randol Contreras 9. Queer Anomalies?: Overcoming Assumptions in Criminological Research with Gay Men Vanessa R. PanfilPart IV. Comparative Social Organization of Place and Crime10. Qualitative Research in Comparative Context: Understanding Crime and Politics in Brazilian Shantytowns Enrique Desmond Arias 11. Swim against the Tide: Using Qualitative Data to Build a Theory on Chinese Human Smuggling Sheldon X. Zhang and Ko-lin ChinPart V. Understanding Punishment and Society12. Observing Prisons, Conceptualizing Punishment: Ethnography and the Possibility of Theory Lynne Haney 13. Appreciative Inquiry, Generative Theory, and the Failed State Prison Alison Liebling 14. Penal Artifacts: Mining Documents to Advance Punishment and Society Theory Mona LynchPart VI. Long Views on Qualitative Criminology15. Cultural Criminology as Method and Theory Jeff Ferrell 16. Qualitative Research, Theory Development, and Evidence-Based Corrections: Can Success Stories Be Evidence? Shadd Maruna 17. Where Are We? Why Are We Here? Where Are We Going? How Do We Get There? The Future of Qualitative Research in American Criminology Richard Wright, Scott Jacques, and Michael SteinContributorsIndex
