Qualitative research in criminology / edited by Fiona Brookman, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wincup, Emma.

Noaks, Lesley.

Brookman, Fiona.

Series:

Cardiff papers in qualitative research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Research--Methodology.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

vii, 184 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1999.

Contents:

Part 1 The process of criminalisation 6

1 The Public Order Act 1936 and the Greenshirt Movement for Social Credit / Mark Drakeford 7

2 Investigating a 'criminal' public sphere: reflexivity, law and class struggle / John Michael Roberts 27

3 Accessing and analysing police murder files / Fiona Brookman 46

4 Social constructions of violence against the police / Mike Levi, Lesley Noaks 62

5 Accessing a demonised subculture: studying drug use and violence among bodybuilders / Lee Monaghan 76

6 'Rape from afar': men exposing to women and children / Rosalind Beck 91

Part 2 Responses to crime and criminal activity 111

7 Researching women awaiting trial: dilemmas of feminist ethnography / Emma Wincup 112

8 Oral history and the cultures of the police / Tom Cockcroft 130

9 Cops for hire: methodological issues in researching private policing / Lesley Noaks 141

10 Organised crime in Mexico / Alejandra Gomez-Cespedes 155

11 The social construction of fraud, trust, abuse and the private victim / Andy Pithouse 171.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1840145714

OCLC:

40646506