Qualitative Research in Criminology

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 ofthenarratives, events, theoretical perspectives, and realities ofthesocial 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 usingqualitative methodologies, including innovative uses of technology mediums-such as social media, participatory videos, Zoom interviewing, and photographic visual methods-as means ofcollecting and co-producing relevant data onmeaning. Ultimately, this book illustrates how qualitative criminology allows for deeper and more nuanced understandings oflocal and regional specificities in a globalized world, and how social interactions are influenced byindividual interpretations, social interactions, and collective decision making.This volume is an essential read forgraduate students and researchers in criminology and other social science disciplines interested in qualitative empirical research and informed policy making.