Qualitative Research in Criminology 1st Edition by Wilson R. Palacios, ISBN-13: 978-0367598259

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Qualitative Research in Criminology 1st Edition by Wilson R. Palacios, ISBN-13: 978-0367598259

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• Publisher: ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (June 30, 2020)
• Language: ‎ English
• 372 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0367598256
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0367598259

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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Value of Qualitative Research for Advancing

Criminological Theory

Jody Miller and Wilson R. Palacios

Part I. Qualitative Criminology: History and Epistemology

1. 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. Manning

Part II. Narratives, Biography, and Cultural Meanings of Crime

4. Psychosocial Criminology: Making Sense of Senseless Violence 69

David Gadd and Mary-Louise Corr

5. Research Strategies for Narrative Criminology 85

Lois Presser and Sveinung Sandberg

6. The Culture of Violent Behavior: Language, Culture, and

Worldview of Prison Rape 101

Mark S. Fleisher

Part III. Positionality and the Study of Criminalized Social Worlds

7. Being Trusted with “Inside Knowledge”: Ethnographic

Research with Male Muslim Drug Dealers 135

Sandra M. Bucerius

8. Recalling to Life: Understanding Stickup Kids through Insider

Qualitative Research 155

Randol Contreras

9. Queer Anomalies?: Overcoming Assumptions in

Criminological Research with Gay Men 169

Vanessa R. Panfil

Part IV. Comparative Social Organization of Place and Crime

10. Qualitative Research in Comparative Context: Understanding

Crime and Politics in Brazilian Shantytowns 193

Enrique Desmond Arias

11. Swim against the Tide: Using Qualitative Data to Build a Theory

on Chinese Human Smuggling 215

Sheldon X Zhang and Ko-lin Chin

Part V. Understanding Punishment and Society

12. Observing Prisons, Conceptualizing Punishment: Ethnography

and the Possibility of Theory 237

Lynne Haney

13. Appreciative Inquiry, Generative Theory, and the

“Failed State” Prison 25 I

Alison Liebling

14. Penal Artifacts: Mining Documents to Advance Punishment

and Society Theory 271

Mona Lynch

Part VI. Long Views on Qualitative Criminology

15. Cultural Criminology as Method and Theory 293

Jeff Ferrell

16. Qualitative Research, Theory Development, and Evidence-Based

Corrections: Can Success Stories Be “Evidence”? 3 I I

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 339

Richard Wright, Scott Jacques, and Michael Stein

Contributors 351

Index 357

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