Qualitative Research in Criminology

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· Advances in Criminological Theory Book 1 · Transaction Publishers
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This volume investigates the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It features seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between methodology and theory. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that explores the approaches of qualitative scholars in the collection and treatment of data in criminological scholarship. Among the key issues addressed in the volume are methodological rigor in qualitative research; movement between method, theory building, theoretical refinement and expansion; diversity of qualitative methodologies, from classic field research to contemporary innovations; and considerations of the future of qualitative criminological research. Qualitative research use has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years. This latest volume of Advances in Criminological Theory presents a cogent appraisal of qualitative criminology and the ways in which rigorous qualitative research contributes to theorizing about crime and justice.

About the author

Jody Miller is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and a fellow of the American Society of Criminology. Among her books is the award-winning Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence. Wilson R. Palacios is an associate professor in the School of Criminology & Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He published numerous articles and book chapters in Justice Quarterly, Critical Criminology, Deviant Behavior, AIDS & Behavior, and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

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