Doing Ethnography in Criminology: Discovery through Fieldwork

✍ Scribed by Stephen K. Rice, Michael D. Maltz

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 360
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This innovative book examines the use of ethnography and fieldwork in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research. Using a combination of case studies, as well as “behind the scenes” contributions, it provides an comprehensive look at both the insights gained from ethnographic research, as well as the choices researchers make in conducting that work.

The research is divided into three main sections, covering ethnographies of subcultures, ethnographies of place, and ethnographies of policing. It includes a diverse group of international contributors to provide perspectives on researchers’ selection of questions to study, and their decisions about using ethnography to study those questions.

This work will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with a qualitative perspective, as well as related fields such as sociology, anthropology, and demography. It will also be of interest to students studying research methods and design.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Walking a Mile in Another Person’s Shoes (Stephen K. Rice, Michael D. Maltz)....Pages 1-8
Seeing Like a Cop, Writing Like a Critical Scholar (Amada Armenta)....Pages 9-19
Doing Court Ethnography: How I Learned to Study the Law in Action (Carla J. Barrett)....Pages 21-28
Problematizing School Discipline and Struggling for Verstehen (John J. Brent)....Pages 29-38
The Sense and Nonsense in Planning Ahead: The Unanticipated Turns in Ethnographies on Crime and Drug Dealing (Sandra M. Bucerius)....Pages 39-55
The Promise and Process of Ethnography: What We Have Learned Studying Gang Members and CPS Kids (Gabriel T Cesar, Scott H. Decker)....Pages 57-74
“Did I Just Get Caught Being Stupid?” Experiencing and Managing the Emotional Labor of Fieldwork (Heith Copes)....Pages 75-81
Process and Insight in Prison Ethnography (Ben Crewe)....Pages 83-89
Fieldwork with Homicide Detectives: 60 Minutes of Reflections from a British and American Criminologist (Dean Dabney, Fiona Brookman)....Pages 91-113
To the Bridge and Back: Risks, Rewards, and Rookie Mistakes in a Study of Postwar Bosnia (Stephanie M. DiPietro)....Pages 115-128
Keeping Classic Ethnographic Traditions Alive in the Modern-Day Academy (Jamie J. Fader)....Pages 129-146
Criminological Ethnography: Living and Knowing (Jeff Ferrell)....Pages 147-161
A Twitch or a Blink, an Ethnographer’s Path to Understanding Culture: A Lecture (Mark S. Fleisher)....Pages 163-177
The Ghost of Ethnography Future (Alistair Fraser)....Pages 179-185
Becoming a Police Ethnographer (William Garriott)....Pages 187-194
Using Prison Ethnography in Terrorism Research (Mark S. Hamm)....Pages 195-202
Searching for Glimmers of Ethnography in Jailhouse Criminology (Jacqueline B. Helfgott)....Pages 203-220
Just Who Needs Forgiveness? The Emotional Terrain of a Prison-Based Interview (Steve Herbert)....Pages 221-227
Respecting the Voices of Youth: Studying School Security and Punishment (Aaron Kupchik)....Pages 229-235
A Taste of Ethnography (Peter K. Manning)....Pages 237-245
Doing Treatment Ethnography in Justice Settings: Reflections from Two Decades in the Field (J. Mitchell Miller)....Pages 247-251
Getting In by Being Out (Vanessa R. Panfil)....Pages 253-264
A Bronx Tale: Lessons on Community and Police from 10 Years of Systematic Social Observations (Andres F. Rengifo, Cherrell Green, Lee Ann Slocum, Aaron Ho)....Pages 265-276
The Scream: Insider Access and Outsider Legitimacy in Danish Prisons (Jennifer Sumner, Lori Sexton, Keramet Reiter)....Pages 277-288
Doing Ultrarealist Ethnography: Romanticism and Running with the Riotous (While Buying Your Round) (James Treadwell)....Pages 289-301
Shots Fired: Navigating Gun Violence and a University’s Intervention While in the Field (Marta-Marika Urbanik)....Pages 303-323
Doing Criminological Autoethnography: Learning from Conversations with Ourselves (Stephen Wakeman)....Pages 325-335
Making Use of a Biased Eye: Photographic Studies of Neighborhoods (Danielle Wallace)....Pages 337-346
Back Matter ....Pages 347-361

✦ Subjects

Criminology and Criminal Justice; Research Methods in Criminology; Ethnography

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography

📁 Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

✍ Adolfo Estalella , Tomás Sánchez Criado 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Berghahn 🌐 English

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation of re

Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography

📁 Experimental Collaborations: Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices

✍ Adolfo Estalella (editor); Tomás Sánchez Criado (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Berghahn Books 🌐 English

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation o

Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistic

📁 Journeys Through Ethnography: Realistic Accounts of Fieldwork

✍ Annette Lareau, Jeffrey Shultz (editors) 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Westview 🌐 English

Learning how to carry out research projects using participant observation and in-depth interviews has become a priority for scholars in a wide range of fields, including anthropology, sociology, education, social work, nursing, and psychology. This book, a collection of well-known fieldwork accounts

Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods fo

📁 Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond

✍ Wayne Fife 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan 🌐 English

<DIV>Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy orien

Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods fo

📁 Doing Fieldwork: Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond

✍ Wayne Fife (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2005 🏛 Palgrave Macmillan US 🌐 English

Making use of his own research experiences in Papua New Guinea, Southern Ontario, and Newfoundland, Wayne Fife teaches students and new researchers how to prepare for research, conduct a study, analyze the material (e.g. create new social and cultural theory), and write academic or policy oriente

Ethnography and the City: Readings on Do

📁 Ethnography and the City: Readings on Doing Urban Fieldwork

✍ Richard E. Ocejo 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the City will expose readers to important