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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464922903321

Titolo

The pains of doing criminological research / / Kristel Beyens [and five others] ; editors J. Christiaens [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, Belgium : , : VUBPress, , 2013

©2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

Criminological Studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BeyensKristel

ChristiaensJ

Disciplina

364

Soggetti

Criminology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Front ""; ""Contents""; ""1. Introduction. Giving Voice to the Researcher""; ""2. Paradigms. Waving the Flag or Flagging the Wave?""; ""3. The Pains and Gains of a Social Constructionist Perspective on Policy-supporting Research""; ""4. Gender and Prison Ethnography. Some Fieldwork Implications""; ""5. Criminological Research on Non-national Prisoners without a Legal Residence Permit. The Quest for the Holy Grail of Data""; ""6. Criminological-psychological Case-work. Consequences of Visiting the Pits of Hell""; ""7. Observing the Observers. Participant Observation in Police Settings""

""8. Getting Personal. Reflections on the 'I' of a Researcher""""9. Ethnography and Emotions. The Myth of the Cold and Objective Scientist1""; ""10. Breaking Boundaries. Collapsing the Dark Side of Researching Criminology""; ""11. Facing Resistance to Research Results""; ""12. Pitfalls of Comparative (Penological) Research and How to Overcome Them""