This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which include: access, power imbalances, getting past ‘corporate answers’, considerations of whether or not it is at times acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to students and scholars conducting qualitative research.
Author(s): Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 174
Tags: Research Methods In Criminology
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Introduction (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 1-7
Interviewing ‘the Powerful’ in Crime and Crime Control (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 9-27
Interview Models and Researcher’s Self-Positioning (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 29-58
Their Reign, Their Game? Accessing the Powerful (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 59-90
Prepare, Prepare, Prepare (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 91-104
Conducting the Interview (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 105-136
Making Sense of the Data (Olga Petintseva, Rita Faria, Yarin Eski)....Pages 137-164
Back Matter ....Pages 165-166
