Reflexivity in Criminological Research: Experiences with the Powerful and the Powerless

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Reflexivity in Criminological Research....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-22
Negotiating ‘Victim Communities’: Reflexivity and Method in Researching High-Profile Crimes....Pages 23-34
Relationships Between Gatekeepers and Researchers: The Experience of Conducting Evaluations into Parenting Programmes in Community and Penal Settings....Pages 35-46
The Mango Tree: Exploring the Prison Space for Research....Pages 47-57
Reflective Friend Research: The Relational Aspects of Social Scientific Research....Pages 58-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-76
Having the Balls: Reflections on Doing Gendered Research with Football Hooligans....Pages 77-89
The Interplay Between Power and Reflexivity in Feminist Research on Young Women’s Safety....Pages 90-101
Power, Pregnancy and Prison: The Impact of a Researcher’s Pregnancy on Qualitative Interviews with Women Prisoners....Pages 102-114
Writing the Ethnographic Self in Research on Marginalised Youths and Masculinity....Pages 115-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-126
From ‘Hate Crimes’ to Social Harm: Critical Moments and Reflexive Practice....Pages 127-137
Prison Is My Family Business: Reflections of an African American Woman with Incarcerated Relatives Doing Research on Incarcerated African American Fathers....Pages 138-149
Accessing the Experiences of Female and Minority Police Officers: Observations from an Ethnographic Researcher....Pages 150-161
Researching ‘Bogus’ Asylum Seekers, ‘Illegal’ Migrants and ‘Crimmigrants’....Pages 162-177
Researching ‘Hidden Populations’: Reflections of a Quantitative Researcher in Understanding ‘Established’ and ‘Immigrant’ Groups’ Perceptions of Crime and Social (Dis)Order....Pages 178-191
‘Coming In from the Cold’: Constructing Qualitative ‘Criminality’ in Australia’s Penal-Welfare State....Pages 192-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-206
From Paper Ethics to Real-World Research: Supervising Ethical Reflexivity When Taking Risks in Research with ‘the Risky’....Pages 207-219
Armed Robbery and Ethnographic Connection in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil....Pages 220-230
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Politics, Power and Gender: Reflections on Researching Female Policy Elites in Criminal Justice....Pages 233-246
Overcoming Barriers in the Criminal Justice System: Examining the Value and Challenges of Interviewing Legal Practitioners....Pages 247-258
Doing Research in Prison: How to Resist Institutional Pressures....Pages 259-274
Front Matter....Pages 231-232
‘You Are What You Research’: Bias and Partisanship in an Ethnography of Boy Racers....Pages 275-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
Online Gambling, Advantage Play, Reflexivity and Virtual Ethnography....Pages 289-300
Reflexivity and Participatory Policy Ethnography: Situating the Self in a Transnational Criminology of Harm Production....Pages 301-312
Innovative Justice: According to Whom?....Pages 313-325
Back Matter....Pages 326-336