Research Methods : A Qualitative Reader
Research Methods : A Qualitative Reader
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Author(s): Miller, J. Mitchell
ISBN No.: 9780131690257
Pages: 240
Year: 200506
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 52.70
Status: Out Of Print

I. CRIME AND DEVIANCE WORK. 1. Acting Like an Insider: Studying Hidden Environments as a Potential Participant, Richard Tewksbury. 2. Covert Participation Observation: Reconsidering the Least Used Method, J. Mitchell Miller. 3.


Criminological Verstehen: Inside the Immediacy of Crime, Jeff Ferrell. 4. Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage, Ken Tunnell. II. DOWN AND DIRTY ETHNOGRAPHY: ILLUSTRATIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH. 1. Assumed and Presumed Identities: Problems of Self-Presentation in Field Research, Richard Tewksbury and Patricia Gagne. 2.


A Snowballs Chance in Hell: Doing Fieldwork with Active Residential Burglars, Richard Wright, Scott H. Decker, Allison K. Redfern, and Dietrich L. Smith. 3. Drug Enforcements Double-Edged Sword: An Assessment of Asset Forfeiture Programs, J. Mitchell Miller and Lance H. Selva.


4. Women in Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore. 5. The Business of Illegal Gambling: An Examination of the Gambling Business in Vietnamese Cafes, Tomson H. Nguyen, Deviant Behavior. 6. Graduating from the Field: Disengaging from Ethnographic Field Sites, Richard Tewksbury.


III. DANGER & STIGMA IN CRIME AND DEVIANCE FIELDWORK. 1. Personal Safety in Dangerous Places, Terry Williams, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamid. 2. God, Shes Gonna Report Me: The Ethics of Child Protection in Poverty Research, Lisa Bostock. 3.


Studying Sexuality: Strategies for Surviving Stigma, Tania Israel. 4. Sex with Informants as Deviant Behavior: An Account and Commentary, Erich Goode. 5. On Having Ones Research Seized, David Sonenschein. 6. Collecting Sensitive Data: The Impact on Researchers, Barbara Johnson and Jill Macleod Clarke.


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