Doing Criminological Research

Davies, Pamela; Francis, Peter; Jupp, Victor

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“…This format allowed the researcher space to adapt the interview and elicit further responses from participants in the light of local circumstances ( Jupp et al, 2000). In most cases, this allowed the interviews to fall into a format more typically recognized as a 'conversation with a purpose' (Burgess, 1988).…”

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On doing ‘being ordinary’: women's accounts of BRCA testing and maternal responsibility

Rowley

2007

New Genetics and Society

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In recent months, genetic testing for the breast and ovarian cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, has again hit the headlines in the UK press. Four women, all from families with a strong breast cancer pedigree, have asked the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority for permission to screen their embryos for BRCA1/2 mutations. Although this may be a dramatic example of parental responsibility, other studies have shown that women at risk of BRCA-related cancers frequently cite responsibility to others as an important influence on their testing and treatment decision making. In this paper, I explore the decision-making explanations that women at risk of BRCA-related breast and ovarian cancer provide when accounting for their decision to undergo genetic testing. In doing so, I treat women's accounts critically, and examine how and why the women verbalize their explanations in the manner that they do.

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On doing ‘being ordinary’: women's accounts of BRCA testing and maternal responsibility

Rowley

2007

New Genetics and Society

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“…The interpretation may be biased due to the researcher's subjective and prejudiced view. Jupp et al (2000) suggested that validity checks on some of the data in field observations have important implications for using a combination of various sources such as both interview data and the offenders' accounts. Combining these forms of data is a form of triangulation.…”

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Female Defendants and Criminal Courts in Taiwan: An Observation Study

Hsu

2010

Asian Criminology

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It has long been contended that the criminal justice system extends the influence of patriarchy in society. Feminist and critical criminologists have produced countless examples of the male domination in the criminal justice system. Critics of law and criminal justice point out that the system treats women the same way as does the mainstream society (MacKinnon 1989(MacKinnon , 1991Smart 1989). Therefore, criminal justice cannot be expected to remedy injustices legally before they are recognized as injustices socially. Sociological studies in crime and delinquency have also neglected gender issues. By employing the qualititaive research approach of field observation, this study focuses on how practitioners in three criminal courts in Southern Taiwan interact with female defendants. The findings point out that the court system was unbending in treating the observed defendants in a condescending manner, and expedited the trial process to pronounce the defendants' guilt. The study aims to offer explicit and nuanced empirical evidence of how gender complicates courtroom interaction. Evidence from this study also forms the basis for policy recommendations and future reform in the criminal justice system.

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“…For this, and I am sure other commentators would agree, elements of ethical uncertainty about the involvement of the researcher are undoubtedly part of the process of using visual ethnographic methods in drug-using locations: that, without using the camcorder to interact with the players in the scene (Schrum et al 2005); without being flexible and improvisational (Agar 1986); without being sensitive in a number of capacities (Jupp et al 2000, Katz 1999, it would ultimately have jeopardised the scene and produced a visual narrative absent of the cultural and social discourses of their actions. It would also ignore the potential to learn about the meaning crack cocaine users attribute to cultural products and practices in more detail (see Koester 1996, Pink 2006, Rhodes et al 2006 given that interactive-based fieldwork in such environments hold uncomfortable prospects for the qualitative researcher (Bourgois 2002, Curtis 2002.…”

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“…To help participants feel more comfortable and to sideline researcher presence, empathy, compassion, and understanding were demonstrated with participants (Jupp et al 2000). While this went someway to securing trust 8 in situational contexts, it also meant researchers were 'playing a part' in the scene.…”

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Emotions, ethnography and crack cocaine users

Briggs

2013

Emotion, Space and Society

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There is little acknowledgement of researcher emotions in qualitative texts; especially so, within the context of street drug users. In these contexts, there is little reflection on how emotion is shaped in the field, not only with research participants, but also within the research environments. Based on a project which used visual ethnographic methods with a cohort of crack cocaine users in south London, this paper offers some reflection on these issues. It considers the practical, methodological and ethical tensions of managing relationships when repositioning ethnography within 'visual ethnography' to fit the remit of another qualitative project. Using both interview and observation data, I will exemplify this through two case study 'scenes' which follow the narrative of "Blood". 1 I firstly argue that the methodological, emotional, ethical, and pragmatic characteristics of ethnography become 'magnified' in the process of capturing visual data. Secondly, I also suggest that many of the 'everyday' interactional faculties available to ethnographers are difficult to maintain when using such visual methods in drug-using locations because awareness of social dynamics are amplified. My conclusion offers critical reflections and reflects on the emotional consequences for the researcher when withdrawing from the field.

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Doing Criminological Research

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On doing ‘being ordinary’: women's accounts of BRCA testing and maternal responsibility

On doing ‘being ordinary’: women's accounts of BRCA testing and maternal responsibility

Female Defendants and Criminal Courts in Taiwan: An Observation Study

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