Look who’s talking: interviewing Russian criminals

Rawlinson, Paddy

doi:10.1007/s12117-007-9014-9

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“…For example, in research concerned directly with investigating criminal activities, the researcher’s responsibility for preserving anonymity is crucial (see, for example, Rawlinson, 2007). However, none of the codes of ethics included in this research give any guidelines on dealing with information about illegal activities.…”

Section: Results: Relational Ethicsmentioning

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Health Research Ethics: Between Ethics Codes and Culture

Gheondea-Eladi

2017

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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This article is meant to describe and analyze some of the ethical difficulties encountered in a pilot research on treatment decisions of patients with chronic viral hepatitis C infection in Romania. It departs from an overview of the main ethics codes, and it shows that social health research on patients falls in between institutional codes of ethics. Furthermore, the article moves on to analyze so-called "important moments" of empirical research, such as the implementation of the ethical protocol, dealing with informal payments and with information on shady actions, as well as requests of information from interviewed patients and deciding when and if to breach confidentiality. In an attempt to evaluate the ad hoc solutions found in the field, the concluding remarks discuss these issues at the threshold of theory and practice.

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Section: Results: Relational Ethicsmentioning

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Health Research Ethics: Between Ethics Codes and Culture

Gheondea-Eladi

2017

Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics

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“…The researcher's success in negotiating access to triad society through the hierarchical close-knit fictive kinship structure would suggest that in spite of the fact that different criminal organisations are culturally unique, such a methodology may be transferable to investigating criminal organisations sharing similar structural and organisational features. Indeed, Italian Mafia (Paoli, 2003) and Russian Mafia (Rawlinson, 2008;Siegel, 2005) members are bounded by brotherhood and hierarchical fictive-kinship networks. Through sharing the triad society research experience, it is expected that the present paper will attract more researchers to use an emic approach to study organised crime, so that different stories can be collected to construct a more holistic and authentic criminal underworld.…”

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Negotiating access to research on triad society: the importance of Chinese and triad cultural capital

Kwok

2019

Qualitative Research

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Negotiating access to participants presents challenges for researchers of organised crime. Issues in accessing the field of criminal organisations in Western settings have been well-documented. However, strategies for accessing Chinese criminal organisations remain embryonic. This article presents findings that represent the researcher’s first-hand fieldwork experiences in overcoming such challenges, especially the problem of access negotiation when conducting triad society research. As the first ethnographic study of triad society in China, this paper aims to identify the ways in which the effective use of Chinese culture and triad subculture, insider information and knowledge facilitates access negotiation to the field, and helps establish social networks with individuals at different levels of the triad hierarchy. Attention is paid to the ways in which the researcher utilised Chinese networking culture, including guanxi principles and the mechanism of renqing as well as face culture and face-work, in gaining access to and building trust with triad members. Techniques to acquire triad subculture will also be addressed.

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Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

Uhm

Wong

2018

Asian J Criminol

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This study focusses on the role of trust in the illegal distribution of protected wildlife in China. This research attempts to contribute to the literature by disentangling the establishment of trust within the illegal wildlife trade based on ethnographic fieldwork between 2011 and 2016. Both traders and consumers are resorting to mechanisms of trust to foster exchange and to increase credibility of their agreements. This study discusses the existence of such mechanisms of trust within wildlife trafficking networks that are rather characteristic of illegal wildlife trade in China.

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Look who’s talking: interviewing Russian criminals

Abstract: This paper reflects on the mistakes, the lessons learned and the successes of interviewing Russian entrepreneurs known to devote at least some, if not all, of their operations to illegal business.

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Health Research Ethics: Between Ethics Codes and Culture

Health Research Ethics: Between Ethics Codes and Culture

Negotiating access to research on triad society: the importance of Chinese and triad cultural capital

Establishing Trust in the Illegal Wildlife Trade in China

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