Sociological stalking? Methods, ethics and power in longitudinal criminological research

Sharpe, Gilly

doi:10.1177/1748895816669214

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“…Due to this, criminally active women exposed to violence typically only contact hospitals and authorities in an emergency [22,28]. Contacting authorities while in a drug (ab)using and criminal lifestyle can also lead to other repercussions such as a risk of losing care of children ( [28]; see also [60]). This is likely to be especially true in Sweden (where the present study was conducted) since Sweden has a history of punitive social policy on drug use, and even the personal intake of illicit drugs is criminalized [21].…”

Section: Violence Against Women In Criminal Lifestylesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As shown by previous research, isolation is a common feature of intimate partner violence. Research has also shown that the stigma of being perceived as a convicted woman may lead to isolation due to shame [28,58,60,65]. This, in combination with the strong link between violent victimization and mental illnesses such as PTSD, could make it harder for a willing desister to (re)establish contact with conventional society.…”

Section: Possible Implications Of Violent Victimization On Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Being Willing but Not Able: Echoes of Intimate Partner Violence as a Hindrance in Women’s Desistance from Crime

Gålnander

2019

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose This article emphasizes the complexity of desistance processes by exploring how echoes of violent victimization from intimate partners work as a hindrance or barrier to desistance. Drawing on interviews with women who are striving to desist, this article seeks to elucidate how past experiences of excessive and recurring violent victimization affect the life course, with a focus on their restrictions on the women's desistance processes. Methods This paper is built upon repeated qualitative interviews with ten women in the early stages of their desistance processes. They were all interviewed repeatedly on a 6monthly basis for 2 years. Echoes of violent victimization as a hindrance to desistance emerged as a theme during the interviews and are explored further via a thematic analysis. Results Echoes of violent victimization from intimate partners restrict the women's social lives, complicating an already fragile (re)connection to conventional society. Additionally, many of the women are restricted by post-traumatic stress disorders directly related to their violent victimization, which impedes their agency and limits their abilities to act towards desistance. Conclusions Recurring violent victimization has severe implications for the women's desistance processes. Both social and health-related consequences of this violence restrict the women's ability to act towards desistance from crime and expose them to painful experiences of isolation, goal failure, and hopelessness. These conclusions are important contributions to the understanding of the complexity of desistance processes.

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Section: Violence Against Women In Criminal Lifestylesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Possible Implications Of Violent Victimization On Desistancementioning

confidence: 99%

Being Willing but Not Able: Echoes of Intimate Partner Violence as a Hindrance in Women’s Desistance from Crime

Gålnander

2019

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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“…Carlen and Ayres França, 2017; hooks, 1990; Miller, 2012; Ramazanoglu and Holland, 2002; Tyler, 2008) and explorations of ‘vulnerability’, privilege and experience on the part of both the researcher and the researched (e.g. Armstrong et al, 2014; Behar, 2014 (1996); Beyens et al, 2013; Gelsthorpe, 2007; Holland, 2007; Sharpe, 2016). Scholars have explored the politics of method – how politics shape the questions we ask and how we ask them, the relationships between social science, values and ethics, and what it means to ‘do justice’ to research findings and ‘have impact’ in and with the world (e.g.…”

Section: Problems Of Power Purpose Positioning and Personhood In Rementioning

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What’s so good about participation? Politics, ethics and love in Learning Together

Armstrong

Ludlow

2020

Methodological Innovations

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This article tells the story of our movement towards using participatory approaches in an action research project aiming to understand the experiences and impacts of belonging to learning communities that span prison and university walls. We draw on our experiences over the past 5 years of building learning communities involving students from higher education and criminal justice organisations and describe some of our attempts to provide creative opportunities for participation and voice within research. We highlight some of the benefits that we have seen through adopting these approaches, as well as some of the discomforts that we, and our students, have experienced. We use these examples to question for whom we think participation ‘works’, whether participation is always good, or whether it can, rather, sometimes cause harm, and the extent to which participation addresses some of the ethical concerns levelled at more traditional approaches to social science research, including matters of power, purpose, positioning and personhood. Using the work of Cantillon and Lynch as an orienting framework, in the conclusions we return to their arguments to suggest that the benefits of participatory action research might not be in alleviating these ethical concerns, but rather in establishing affective links between people occupying different roles within research, thus imbuing the process with love. This has the potential to transform all of the actors, and the research itself.

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“…Reflexivity is of paramount importance in qualitative research (Armstrong et al, 2017; Sharpe, 2017), namely scrutinizing researchers’ positionality and reflecting on its effect throughout the research process, and considering the possible contradictions from wanting to ‘give a voice’ (Phillips and Earle, 2010: 372). Like interviews or observations, scholars who draw on prisoners’ letters become a research instrument (Liebling, 1999) that shapes the production and dissemination of knowledge, and that ultimately needs to be taken seriously.…”

Section: Ethics and Emotionsmentioning

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The power of the pen: Prisoners’ letters to explore extreme imprisonment

Vannier

2018

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article examines how we might best examine the most extreme and inaccessible corners of imprisonment. Drawing on a study of life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) in California, this article argues that prisoners’ letters can shed exceptional light on the hidden and unspoken experiences of imprisonment. It provides an in-depth methodological and reflective outline of how to use prisoners’ letters, a familiar tactic in prison researchers’ and advocates’ toolkits, but a research implement that is rarely discussed explicitly. By better understanding how to do prison research with letters and the emotions these might provoke in the process, this article demonstrates the very specific and distinct value of the method, in particular how letters can contribute to knowledge about extreme penal severity.

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Sociological stalking? Methods, ethics and power in longitudinal criminological research

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Being Willing but Not Able: Echoes of Intimate Partner Violence as a Hindrance in Women’s Desistance from Crime

Being Willing but Not Able: Echoes of Intimate Partner Violence as a Hindrance in Women’s Desistance from Crime

What’s so good about participation? Politics, ethics and love in Learning Together

The power of the pen: Prisoners’ letters to explore extreme imprisonment

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