Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
