This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship.Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method, theory building, theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies, from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research.Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice.
Introduction: The Value of Qualitative Research for Advancing Criminological TheoryJody Miller and Wilson R. PalaciosPart I. Qualitative Criminology: History and Epistemology1. Criminal Practice: Fieldwork and Improvisation in Difficult CircumstancesDick Hobbs2. Kites from Drug Research RehabMichael Agar3. Qualitative Research as TheorizingPeter K. ManningPart II. Narratives, Biography, and Cultural Meanings of Crime4. Psychosocial Criminology: Making Sense of Senseless ViolenceDavid Gadd and Mary-Louise Corr5. Research Strategies for Narrative CriminologyLois Presser and Sveinung Sandberg6. The Culture of Violent Behavior: Language, Culture, and Worldview of Prison RapeMark S. FleisherPart III. Positionality and the Study of Criminalized Social Worlds7. Being Trusted with "Inside Knowledge": Ethnographic Research with Male Muslim Drug DealersSandra M. Bucerius8. Recalling to Life: Understanding Stickup Kids through Insider Qualitative ResearchRandol Contreras9. Queer Anomalies?: Overcoming Assumptions in Criminological Research with Gay MenVanessa R. PanfilPart IV. Comparative Social Organization of Place and Crime10. Qualitative Research in Comparative Context: Understanding Crime and Politics in Brazilian ShantytownsEnrique Desmond Arias11. Swim against the Tide: Using Qualitative Data to Build a Theory on Chinese Human SmugglingSheldon X. Zhang and Ko-lin ChinPart V. Understanding Punishment and Society12. Observing Prisons, Conceptualizing Punishment: Ethnography and the Possibility of TheoryLynne Haney13. Appreciative Inquiry, Generative Theory, and the "Failed State" PrisonAlison Liebling14. Penal Artifacts: Mining Documents to Advance Punishment and Society TheoryMona LynchPart VI. Long Views on Qualitative Criminology15. Cultural Criminology as Method and TheoryJeff Ferrell16. Qualitative Research, Theory Development, and Evidence-Based Corrections: Can Success Stories Be "Evidence"?Shadd Maruna17. Where Are We? Why Are We Here? Where Are We Going? How Do We Get There? The Future of Qualitative Research in American CriminologyRichard Wright, Scott Jacques, and Michael SteinContributorsIndex
Robert F. Meier, Leslie W. Kennedy, Vincent F. Sacco, Robert F. (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Meier, Canada) Sacco, Vincent F. (Queen's University Ontario
Thomas G. Blomberg, Francis T. Cullen, Christoffer Carlsson, Cheryl Lero Jonson, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice) Blomberg, Thomas G. (Florida State University, Sweden) Carlsson, Christoffer (Stockholm University, Cheryl Lero (Xavier University) Jonson