Overview
Includes voices of researchers implementing edge-work on crime, deviance, social control and victimization
Provides a broad and up-to-date overview of qualitative research methods in Criminology
Introduces cutting-edge qualitative approaches often ignored in traditional criminology books
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About this book
This volume introduces innovative and inspired qualitative methods through topics on crime commission, victimisation and crime control. It highlights how qualitative methods offer significant insights that frame our understanding of the narratives, events, theoretical perspectives, and realities of the social world.
This book includes chapters discussing cutting-edge methods, which demonstrate how qualitative research can expand beyond traditional approaches. It offers diversity in research, including gender, race, and geographic sensitivities. The volume addresses a multitude of approaches for using qualitative methodologies, including innovative uses of technology mediums—such as social media, participatory videos, Zoom interviewing, and photographic visual methods—as means of collecting and co-producing relevant data on meaning. Ultimately, this book illustrates how qualitative criminology allows for deeper and more nuanced understandings of local and regional specificities in a globalized world, and how social interactions are influenced by individual interpretations, social interactions, and collective decision making.This volume is an essential read for graduate students and researchers in criminology and other social science disciplines interested in qualitative empirical research and informed policy making.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Rita Faria, School of Criminology and Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security, University of Porto
Rita Faria is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology - University of Porto, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Crime, Justice and Security and Director of the only Ph.D. program in Criminology in Portugal. She earned her Ph.D in Criminology in 2016, and has a B.A. in Law and an M.A. in Sociology. Currently, she is co-chair of the Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies (WG-QRME) and president of the Working Group on Organisational Crime (EUROC), both from the European Society of Criminology. She has extensive experience in teaching, supervising and researching and her preferred topics of research include white-collar, occupational and corporate crime and, more recently, environmental crimes. She has also developed her expertise on the uses of qualitative methods in criminological research and on ethics and integrity in research.
Mary Dodge, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado DenverMary Dodge earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in criminology, law and society from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is a full professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School of Public Affairs. She and Gilbert Geis co-edited the book Lessons of Criminology and share authorship on the book Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal. She is the author of Women and White-Collar Crime and co-author of Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change. She is the recipient of numerous University awards for excellence in teaching, research, and service. Her applied and policy research involves collaboration with law enforcement agencies including organizational assessments, victims focus groups, system responses to sexual assault victims, driving under the influence of marijuana, and research with California POST.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Qualitative Research in Criminology
Book Subtitle: Cutting-Edge Methods
Editors: Rita Faria, Mary Dodge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18401-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18400-0Published: 19 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18403-1Published: 19 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18401-7Published: 18 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 256
Topics: Research Methods in Criminology, Critical Criminology, Criminological Theory