The pains of doing criminological research / Kristel Beyens [and five others] ; editors J. Christiaens [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beyens, Kristel.

Christiaens, J.

Series:

Criminologische studies.

Criminological Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brussels, Belgium : VUBPress, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By explicitly focusing on the lived experiences of criminology researchers and giving voice to their difficulties, struggles, frustrations, and the challenges they meet during their research, this book places the researcher in the center of the attention, providing a unique perspective to the classical handbook in research methods. These tales of the field witnesses relate the hidden difficulties and pitfalls of doing research and discuss often-neglected questions. What does it mean to do research in a hypermasculine environment as a prison? What are the challenges to getting access to a police organization or to private intelligence organizations and private security companies? How does a researcher cope with her or his own emotions during fieldwork? How does an ex-convict experience the process of becoming a researcher? What are the hidden or unexpected problems of publishing? What are the challenges of doing comparative research? These are only a few questions that are dealt with in this book, which is written by researchers for researchers and students of criminology.

Contents:

""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction. Giving Voice to the Researcher""; ""2. Paradigms. Waving the Flag or Flagging the Wave?""; ""3. The Pains and Gains of a Social Constructionist Perspective on Policy-supporting Research""; ""4. Gender and Prison Ethnography. Some Fieldwork Implications""; ""5. Criminological Research on Non-national Prisoners without a Legal Residence Permit. The Quest for the Holy Grail of Data""; ""6. Criminological-psychological Case-work. Consequences of Visiting the Pits of Hell""; ""7. Observing the Observers. Participant Observation in Police Settings""

""8. Getting Personal. Reflections on the 'I' of a Researcher""""9. Ethnography and Emotions. The Myth of the Cold and Objective Scientist1""; ""10. Breaking Boundaries. Collapsing the Dark Side of Researching Criminology""; ""11. Facing Resistance to Research Results""; ""12. Pitfalls of Comparative (Penological) Research and How to Overcome Them""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 04, 2013).

ISBN:

9789057182631

OCLC:

922966349