This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors’ varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disappearance. Stories emerge from women who didn’t survive domestic abuse to those displaced by ‘natural’ disasters, or affected by homelessness. Through deeply personal and ethical reflections, each chapter considers how these losses shape both research and researcher.Offering new insights into harm, reflexivity and the emotional toll of fieldwork, this is an essential contribution to critical criminology and social research methodology.
Tammy C. Ayres is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester.Daniel Briggs is Professor of Criminology and Sociology at Northumbria University.Craig Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.Stuart Taylor is Staff Tutor of Social Policy and Criminology at The Open University.
1. Introduction: Life, Loss and Legacy – Tammy C. Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly and Stuart TaylorPart 1: Loss in the Context of Death2. Fatigue and Fatality: Remembering Roy – Stuart Taylor3. Paul: A Life Told Backwards – Craig Kelly4. ‘The world is out to get me, bruv’: Gangs, Street Life Gangs, Street Life and the Story of How the World ‘Got’ Ben – Daniel BriggsPart 2: Loss in the Context of Society, Culture and Consumption5. Losing Yourself, Becoming Another: Loss as a Transient Experience – Ben Colliver6. Leonard Hockey and the Violent Crusade Against Begging – Vickie Cooper7. Gambling Addiction, Trauma and Loss – Thomas Raymen8. Lost Women and Children: Hearing the Stories of Victims of Domestic Abuse, Including the Ones Who Did Not ‘Survive’ – Mandy Burton9. Missing and 'Lost': Structural Violence, Social Harm and Missing Children – Paul AndellPart 3: Loss in the Context of the Environment10. Critical Perspectives on the Loss of Nature – Angus Nurse and Elliot Doornbos11. Climate Change, Environmental Loss and Lost Futures: On the Blurring of Nostalgia, Solastalgia and Anticipatory Solastalgia – Tammy C. Ayres and Avi BrismanPart 4: Loss in Context of Methods12. Lost and Found: Immersion, Drift and Crossing the Line in Covert Ethnographic Work – Daniel Briggs13. Some Reflections on the Ethics of Covert Ethnography Among Hard-to-Reach Populations – Simon Winlow14. Not a Matter of Life and Death: Getting Lost in Criminological Research – James Treadwell15. The Lost and the Forgotten: The Lasting Legacies of Research – Tammy C. Ayres16. Conclusion: Making Sense of Loss – Tammy C. Ayres, Daniel Briggs, Craig Kelly and Stuart Taylor
'Criminology is often about discovery of "the new". This book reminds us of the ethical and emotional issues involved in remembering the past and memorialising the lost.' Nigel South, University of Essex
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