This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with 'elite' and 'expert' persons (or 'socially prominent actors'), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of 'good' and 'bad' practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which include: access, power imbalances, getting past 'corporate answers', considerations of whether or not it is at times acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to students and scholars conducting qualitative research.
Autorentext
Olga Petintseva is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her expertise is located at the intersection of criminology, migration studies and socio-linguistics.
Julie Tieberghien is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
Rita Faria is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Porto, Portugal. Rita does research in white-collar crime, research misconduct and the use of qualitative methods in Criminology.
Yarin Eski is Assistant Professor at the Knowledge Hub Security and Social Resilience of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in 2015 from the University of Glasgow.
Inhalt
Preface4
Chapter 1. Introduction6
Chapter 2. Interviewing 'the powerful' in crime and crime control12
1.1.Introduction12
1.2.Conceptual issues: who are the 'powerful', 'elites' and 'experts'?12
1.3.Particularities of qualitative interviews with the powerful18
1.4.Why interview the powerful?21
1.5.Core readings23
References24
Chapter 3. Interview models and researcher's self-positioning27
2.1. Introduction27
2.2. Informal and ethnographic interviews31
2.3. Doxastic interviews34
2.4. Looking glass: Researcher as a peer34
2.5. Active interviewing39
2.5.1. Epistemic interviewing40
2.5.2. 'Light' Socratic dialogues as a variation of epistemic interviewing42
2.5.3. Interviewer as critic46
2.6. Core readings47
References47
Chapter 4. Their reign, their game? Accessing the powerful52
3.1. Introduction52
3.2. Sampling53
3.3. Gaining access58
3.4. Maintaining access69
3.5. Core readings73
References74
Chapter 5. Prepare, prepare, prepare77
4.1. Introduction77
4.2. Gaining insights in the setting and its ongoing debates78
4.3. Constructing a topic list80
4.4. Probing and elicitation85
4.5. Core readings86
References86
Chapter 6. Conducting the interview88
5.1. Introduction88
5.2. Gaining trust and building rapport88
5.3. Dealing with questions and assumptions about your knowledge and views93
5.4. Ethics during the interview interaction95
5.5. Language, jargon, body language, attitude98
5.6. Getting into sensitive topics and past corporate answers101
5.7. Physical setting104
5.7.1. The interview venue104
5.7.2. Interviewing in the online and offline world108
5.8. Core readings109
References110
Chapter 7. Making sense of the data113
6.1. Introduction113
6.2. Transcribing and coding113
6.3. Researcher as a situated actor116
6.4. Assessing data quality117
6.5. Ethics in analysis and reporting126
6.6. Leaving the field and getting back to participants129
6.7. Presenting your findings131
6.8. Core readings132
References133
Titel
Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology
EAN
9783030330002
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E-Book (pdf)
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Veröffentlichung
07.11.2019
Digitaler Kopierschutz
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1.82 MB
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166
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