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.
Author(s): Rita Faria, Mary Dodge
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Cham
Introduction
Contents
About the Editors
Part I: Adapting to a New World
Overview
References
Chapter 1: Photo-Based Research with Vulnerable Groups: Breaking Frames for Researchers, Participants, and Audiences
Photo-Based Research with Vulnerable Groups: Breaking Frames for Researchers, Participants, and Audiences
Using Photography in Research
Contextualizing Breaking Frames Through Photo-Based Research
Breaking Frames and Shaping Narratives
Researcher Frame Breaks
Participant Frame Breaks
Audience Frame Breaks
Conclusion
References
Chapter 2: Breaking the Shackles of Academic Capitalism: Academic Life, Liberation and Ethnographic Innovation
Gap in the Market
Our Current Context: Academic Capitalism
More Gaps in the Market
Breaking the Shackles from the Spanish Inquisition…I Mean the Spanish Institution
Freedom and Ethnographic Innovation
In the City Shadows: Drug Addiction and Violence
Between the Nooks and Crannies of Western Democracy: The Plight of Europe’s Swelling Refugee Population
Cultural Underbelly: Working in a Luxury Brothel
Discussion. Broken Shackles and Ethnographic Freedom
References
Chapter 3: Mixed Methods: A Justification, Explication, and Example
Why Use Mixed Methods?
A Concurrent Nested Design Example
An Unexpected Disruption: The Global COVID-19 Pandemic
Discussion
References
Part II: The Growing Relevance of the Online World
Overview
Chapter 4: Smart Researching in Criminology: Virtual Ethnography at the Edge
Introduction
The Criminological Relevance of Social Media in Virtual Ethnography
Some Notes on Researching Deviance Online
Criminological Verstehen Within Italian Trap Culture
Interacting Through Instagram
Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Researching Political Corruption and White-Collar Crime on the Internet
Researching on the Internet
Medical Fraud
Political Corruption
Financial Fraud: The Savings and Loan Crisis
Corruption and White-Collar Crime in China
White-Collar Delinquency
Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Online Methods in Qualitative Criminology
Introduction
Phenomenon and Method
Online as a Phenomenon
Online as a Method
Using Qualitative Online Methods in Criminology
Online Interview (Synchronous and Asynchronous)
Online Focus Group
Online Questionnaires and Surveys
Online Participant Observation and Ethnography
Mobile and App-Based Methods
Video, Photo or Audio Elicitation and Diaries
Advantages for Criminologists in the Use of Online Methods
Asynchronous Possibilities
Recruitment, Costs and Logistics
Accessibility
Disadvantages for Criminologists in the Use of Online Methods
Ethics and Consent
Transferability
Methodological and Technical Challenges
Concluding Comments
References
Part III: Methodological Innovations
Overview
References
Chapter 7: Trigger Warnings, Feeling Rules and Other Lessons from the Inside: The Emotional Labour of Qualitative Prison Research
Introduction
Convict Criminology and the Value of Inclusive Prison Research
The Emotional Labour of Qualitative Prison Studies
Reflexive Account of Working on ‘Feeling the Carceral’
Strategies of Coping with the Emotions of Doing Critical Prison Research
Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method
Introduction
Ontological Questioning
Epistemological Grounding
Methodological Inquiry
Conclusions
References
Chapter 9: Towards Visual and Sensory Methodologies in Green Cultural Criminology
Introduction
A Visual and Sensory Approach for Green (Cultural) Criminology
Interviews-with-Visual-Materials
Beyond the Visual: A Sensory Criminology?
Itinerant Soliloquies as a Sensory Methodology
Understanding Communities and Cultures That Base Their Relationship with Nature on Sensory Experiences
‘Ways of Sensing’: Sensory Methods and Indigenous Cultures
Conclusion
References
Part IV: The Connecting Power of Languages
Overview
References
Chapter 10: How to Deal with “Doing Social Inequality” by “Doing Criminological (Qualitative) Research”
Introduction
Introducing the Concepts of Social Inequality, Doing Social Problems, and Reconstructive Sociology
Social Inequality
Doing Social Problems
The Sociology of Knowledge
Reconstructive Sociology
How Specific Criminological Knowledge Is Produced
Conclusion: The Need to Strive for a Sensitive Approach – And Work on Our Limitations
References
Chapter 11: Shooting Poachers on Site: Reflections on the Use of Photography in Active Offender Research
Introduction
Context: Researching Illegal Hunting in Uganda
Using Photography in Active-Offender Research
Our Uses of Photography
Example 1: The King’s Palace and the Trappings of Royalty
Example 2: Growing Up in a Hunting Culture
Example 3: Social Dynamics
Ethical Reflections on Using Photography in Active Offender Research
Developing an Ethical Framework for Managing the Risk of ‘Group Harm’
Conclusions
References
Chapter 12: Language Matters: Doing Systematic (Critical) Discourse Analysis
Introduction
Criminology’s Murky Relationship with (Critical) Discourse Analysis
Systematic, Rigorous, and Credible Analysis
Concluding Thoughts
References
Part V: Praxis: Pondering and Publishing
Overview
References
Chapter 13: The Future Is Already Here: Covid-19, Criminology, and Crime
Introduction: The Game Changer
Lockdown and the Ideological Merger of All Social Institutions
New Hope or Old Futures in Disguise?
Ripped, Torn, Then Shredded: Tensions in the ‘New Normal’
Taboo Topics: Spiralling Inequality, Social Harm, and the Resulting Parallel Collateral Damage
Social Science Judgement Day
References
Chapter 14: “Being” Ethical in Research
Ethics: Is It Worth Reading About It – Again?
Cutting-Edge Methods and Ethical Dilemmas
“Being” Ethical in Criminological Research
Ethical Considerations in Contemporary Crises
References
Chapter 15: What Now and How? Publishing the Qualitative Journal Article
Tips for the Tenacious Researcher
Information That Seems Inconsequential Is Imperative
Conclusion: Revisions and Rejections
References
Index
