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Ethnography at the edge : crime, deviance, and field research / Jeff Ferrell and Mark S. Hamm, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal anthropology--Research.
- Criminal anthropology.
- Criminal anthropology--Fieldwork.
- Criminal behavior--Research.
- Criminal behavior.
- Deviant behavior--Research.
- Deviant behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1998]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Pioneering criminologists and sociologists vividly recount the personal and professional tribulations of conducting field research with deviant and criminal subcultures.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword: Moving Backward; Preface; Introduction; True Confessions: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research; Criminological VerstehenI: Inside the Immediacy of Crime; Homeless and Marginal Populations: Streets and Shelters; Ethnographers, Pimps, and the Company Store; Shattered Lives and Shelter Lies? Anatomy of Research Deviance in Homeless Programming and Policy; Militarism, Terror, and the State; Enjoying Militarism: Political/Personal Dilemmas in Studying U.S. Police Paramilitary Units; The Ethnography of Terror: Timothy McVeigh and the Blue Centerlight of Evil
- Sex Work and Gender Work; Reversing the Ethnographic Gaze: Experiments in Cultural Criminology; (Dis)Courtesy Stigma: Fieldwork among Phone Fantasy Workers; Drugs and Drug Worlds: Urban and Rural; Researching Crack Dealers: Dilemmas and Contradictions; Marijuana Subcultures: Studying Crime in Rural America; Edgework, Honesty, and Criminality; Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage ; Dangerous Methods: Risk Taking and the Research Process; Conclusion sand Prospects; Confessions of Danger and Humanity; References; Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-300) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-55553-865-7
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