Qualitative Research in Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory

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Introduction: The Value of Qualitative Research for Advancing Criminological Theory
Part I. Qualitative Criminology: History and Epistemology
	1. Criminal Practice: Fieldwork and Improvisation in Difficult Circumstances
	2. Kites from Drug Research Rehab
	3. Qualitative Research as Theorizing
Part II. Narratives, Biography, and Cultural Meanings of Crime
	4. Psychosocial Criminology: Making Sense of Senseless Violence
	5. Research Strategies for Narrative Criminology
	6. The Culture of Violent Behavior: Language, Culture, and Worldview of Prison Rape
Part III. Positionality and the Study of Criminalized Social Worlds
	7. Being Trusted with "Inside Knowledge": Ethnographic Research with Male Muslim Drug Dealers
	8. Recalling to Life: Understanding Stickup Kids through Insider Qualitative Research
	9. Queer Anomalies?: Overcoming Assumptions in Criminological Research with Gay Men
Part IV. Comparative Social Organization of Place and Crime
	10. Qualitative Research in Comparative Context: Understanding Crime and Politics in Brazilian Shantytowns
	11. Swim against the Tide: Using Qualitative Data to Build a Theory on Chinese Human Smuggling
Part V. Understanding Punishment and Society
	12. Observing Prisons, Conceptualizing Punishment: Ethnography and the Possibility of Theory
	13. Appreciative Inquiry, Generative Theory, and the "Failed State" Prison
	14. Penal Artifacts: Mining Documents to Advance Punishment and Society Theory
Part VI. Long Views on Qualitative Criminology
	15. Cultural Criminology as Method and Theory
	16. Qualitative Research, Theory Development, and Evidence-Based Corrections: Can Success Stories Be "Evidence"?
	17. Where Are We? Why Are We Here? Where Are We Going? How Do We Get There? The Future of Qualitative Research in American Criminology
Contributors
Index