“…Reflections on methodological and ethical issues in the social sciences, and specifically in criminology and prison research have been gradually emerging in recent decades (Bosworth et al, 2005;Calderón, 2018;Crewe, 2014;Downing;Polzer;Levan, 2013;Duarte;Gomes, 2017;Gelsthorpe, 1990;Jewkes, 2011Jewkes, , 2014Liebling, 2001;Lumsden;Winter, 2014;Myers, 2003;Phillips;Earle, 2010;Piacentini, 2013;Schlosser, 2008). However, few writings are found about these issues in the academic literature, which is partially explained by the traditional predominance of quantitative methodology, which is often considered the most valid and rigorous, and by an approach that sacralizes a particular concept of objectivity and distance to the object as key aspects of scientific research (Flavin, 2001;Gelsthorpe, 1990;Jewkes, 2011;Renzetti, 2013).…”