Doing ethnography in criminology : discovery through fieldwork / editors, Stephen K. Rice and Michael D. Maltz ; foreword by Shadd Maruna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rice, Stephen K., editor.

Maltz, Michael D., editor.

Maruna, Shadd, writer of forword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Research.

Criminology.

Ethnology--Research.

Ethnology.

Crime and race.

Physical Description:

xv, 361 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : : Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This innovative book examines the use of ethnography and fieldwork in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Using a combination of case studies, as well as "behind the scenes" contributions, it provides an comprehensive look at both the insights gained from ethnographic research, as well as the choices researchers make in conducting that work. The research is divided into three main sections, covering ethnographies of subcultures, ethnographies of place, and ethnographies of policing. It includes a diverse group of international contributors to provide perspectives on researchers' selection of questions to study, and their decisions about using ethnography to study those questions. This work will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a qualitative perspective, as well as related fields such as sociology, anthropology, and demography. It will also be of interest to students studying research methods and design.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: walking a mile in another person's shoes

Seeing like a cop, writing like a critical scholar

Doing court ethnography: how I learned to study the law in action

Problematizing school discipline and struggling for Verstehen

The sense and nonsense in planning ahead: the unanticipated turns in ethnographies on crime and drug dealing

The promise and process of ethnography: what we have learned studying gang members and CPS kids

"Did I just get caught being stupid?" Experiencing and managing the emotional labor of fieldwork

Process and insight in prison ethnography

Fieldwork with homicide detectivs: 60 minutes of reflections from a British and American criminologist

To the bridge and back: risks, rewards, and rookie mistakes in a study of postwar Bosnia

Keeping classic ethnographic traditions alive in the modern-day academy

Criminological ethnography: living and knowing

A twitch or a blink, an ethnographer's path to understanding culture: a lecture

The ghost of ethnography future

Becoming a police ethnographer

Using prison ethnography in terrorism research

Searching for glimmers of ethnography in jailhouse criminology

Just who needs forgiveness? The emotional terrain of a prison-based interview

Respecting the voices of youth: studying school security and punishment

A taste of ethnography

Doing treatment ethnography in justice settings: reflections from two decades in the field

Getting in by being out

A Bronx tale: lessons on community and police from 10 years of systematic social observations

The scream: insider access and outsider legitimacy in Danish prisons

Doing ultrarealist ethnography: romanticism and running with the riotous (while buying your round)

Shots fired: navigating gun violence and a university's intervention while in the field

Doing criminological autoethnography: learning from conversations with ourselves

Making use of a biased eye: photographic studies of neighborhoods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319963150

3319963155

OCLC:

1077761984