Reflexivity in Criminological Research

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2. Reflexivity in Criminological Research

   1. Reflexivity in Criminological Research

      • Karen Lumsden, Aaron Winter

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3. Research Relationships Editors’ Introduction

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   2. Negotiating ‘Victim Communities’: Reflexivity and Method in Researching High-Profile Crimes

      • Nicola O’Leary

      Pages 23-34

   3. Relationships Between Gatekeepers and Researchers: The Experience of Conducting Evaluations into Parenting Programmes in Community and Penal Settings

      • Julie T. Davies, Eleanor Peters

      Pages 35-46

   4. The Mango Tree: Exploring the Prison Space for Research

      • Rimple Mehta

      Pages 47-57

   5. Reflective Friend Research: The Relational Aspects of Social Scientific Research

      • Stephen Case, Kevin Haines

      Pages 58-74

4. Researcher Identities, Subjectivities and Intersectionalities: Gender and Class Editors’ Introduction

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   2. Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans

      • Emma Poulton

      Pages 77-89

   3. The Interplay Between Power and Reflexivity in Feminist Research on Young Women’s Safety

      • Oona Brooks

      Pages 90-101

   4. Power, Pregnancy and Prison: The Impact of a Researcher’s Pregnancy on Qualitative Interviews with Women Prisoners

      • Emily Luise Hart

      Pages 102-114

   5. Writing the Ethnographic Self in Research on Marginalised Youths and Masculinity

      • Elias le Grand

      Pages 115-124

5. Researcher Identities, Subjectivities and Intersectionalities: Race and Ethnicity Editors’ Introduction

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   2. From ‘Hate Crimes’ to Social Harm: Critical Moments and Reflexive Practice

      • David Glisch-Sánchez

      Pages 127-137

   3. Prison Is My Family Business: Reflections of an African American Woman with Incarcerated Relatives Doing Research on Incarcerated African American Fathers

      • Breea C. Willingham

      Pages 138-149

   4. Accessing the Experiences of Female and Minority Police Officers: Observations from an Ethnographic Researcher

      • Meghan E. Hollis

      Pages 150-161

   5. Researching ‘Bogus’ Asylum Seekers, ‘Illegal’ Migrants and ‘Crimmigrants’

      • Monish Bhatia

      Pages 162-177

   6. Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order

      • Clare E. Griffiths

      Pages 178-191

   7. ‘Coming In from the Cold’: Constructing Qualitative ‘Criminality’ in Australia’s Penal-Welfare State

      • Michael Wearing

      Pages 192-203

6. Risk, Ethics and Researcher Safety Editors’ Introduction

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This comprehensive collection contributes to, advances and consolidates discussions of the range of research methods in criminology through the presentation of diverse international case studies in which contributors reflect upon their experiences with powerless and powerful individuals or groups.

• Reflexivity
• criminology
• crime
• deviance
• power
• qualitative methods
• criminological research
• research experiences
• ethnography
• critical criminology
• community
• ethics
• evaluation
• feminism
• gender
• innovation
• Institution
• interview
• methods
• Nation
• politics
• quantitative research
• Transnational

'This volume, the first in more than a decade, brings together myriad authors from around the globe to provide credence for our attempts to expand a postmodern ethnography. It offers refreshing reflections that show how ethnographers' backgrounds can impact on the interpretation and representation of data. A welcome new volume in the field, [this book] will pique criminological field researchers to think more about how their own actions and biographies affect who we study and what we find.' - Patricia Adler, University of Colorado, USA

"Lumsden and Winter's new edited collection contains a series of fascinating essays that reflect upon the research process and the creation of criminological knowledge. In particular, these essays are concerned with the relationships that develop between the researcher and the researched and the manner in which the researcher interprets the social action unfolding in front of them. For too long reflexivity has been tangential to criminological research methodologies. This book places it centre stage. It will no doubt be a crucial resource for qualitative criminologists about to head out into the field." - Simon Winlow, Teeside University, UK

• Loughborough University, UK

  Karen Lumsden

• University of East London, UK

  Aaron Winter

Ruth Armstrong, University of Cambridge, UK James Banks, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Monish Bhatia, University of Abertay, Dundee, UK Gemma Birkett, City University London, UK Jarrett Blaustein, Aberystwyth University, UK Oona Brooks, University of Glasgow, UK Stephen Case, Swansea University, UK Ben Crewe, University of Cambridge, UK Julie T. Davies, Edge Hill University, UK Vanina Ferreccio, University of Litoral, Argentina Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Deakin University, Australia Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge, UK David Glisch-Sánchez, University of Texas at Austin, USA Hannah Graham, University of Tasmania, Australia Elias le Grand, Stockholm University, Sweden Clare Griffiths, Keele University, UK Kevin Haines, Swansea University, UK Emily Luise Hart, Liverpool Hope University, UK Meghan E. Hollis, Michigan State University, USA Stephanie C. Kane, Indiana University, USA Rimple Mehta, Jadavpur University, India Nicola O'Leary, University of Hull, UK Eleanor Peters, Edge Hill University, UK Emma Poulton, Durham University, UK Francesca Vianello, University of Padua, Italy Michael Wearing, University of New South Wales, Australia Rob White, University of Tasmania, Australia Breea C. Willingham, SUNY Buffalo and Oneonta, USA

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