The book addresses the issue of assessing the reliability of information about crime from offenders, taking stock of the various methods used to elicit information on offending from offenders and collecting useful information on criminal behaviour.
The book addresses the issue of assessing the reliability of information about crime from offenders, taking stock of the various methods used to elicit information on offending from offenders and collecting useful information on criminal behaviour.
Wim Bernesco is a Senior Researcher within the NSCR Mobility and Distribution of Crime group. His current research interests include spatial aspects of criminal activities, including variations in crime and delinquency between neighbourhoods, offender travel behaviour and target selection, and crime displacement. Michael Tonry is Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. He specializes in criminal law.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword PrefacePart 1: Setting the Stage 1. Learning About Crime from Criminals: Editor's Introduction 2. Misinformation, Misunderstanding and Misleading as Validity Threats to Offenders' Accounts of Offending 3. Apprehending Criminals: The Impact of Law on Offender-based ResearchPart 2: Prison Settings 4. Interviewing the Incarcerated: Pitfalls and Promises5. Interviewing and Validity Issues in Self-report Research with Incarcerated Offenders: The Quebec Inmate Survey6. Beyond the Interview: Complementing and Validating Accounts of Incarcerated Violent OffendersPart 3: Field Settings 7. Method, Actor and Context Triangulations: Knowing What Happened During Criminal Events and the Motivations for Getting Involved 8. Repeat, Triangulate and Reflect: Ethnographic Validity in a Study on Urban Minority Youth 9. Getting Good Data from People that Do Bad Things: Effective Methods and Techniques for Conducting Research with Hard-to-Reach and Hidden PopulationsPart 4: Social Categories of Offenders and Researchers 10. The Impact of Gender when Interviewing 'Offenders on Offending' 11. Talking to Snakeheads: Methodological Considerations for Research on Chinese Human Smuggling 12. Blue-collar, White-collar: Crimes and Mistakes Part 5: Learning About the Actn 13. Research on Residential Burglary: Ways of Improving Validity and Participants' Recall when Gathering Data 14. The Use of Maps in Offender Interviewing 15. Interviewing Offenders in a Penitentiary Environment and the Use of Mental Maps During Interviews 16. Validating Offenders' Accounts: Learning from Offender Interviews with Bank Robbers in Austrian Prisons
Foreword PrefacePart 1: Setting the Stage 1. Learning About Crime from Criminals: Editor's Introduction 2. Misinformation, Misunderstanding and Misleading as Validity Threats to Offenders' Accounts of Offending 3. Apprehending Criminals: The Impact of Law on Offender-based ResearchPart 2: Prison Settings 4. Interviewing the Incarcerated: Pitfalls and Promises5. Interviewing and Validity Issues in Self-report Research with Incarcerated Offenders: The Quebec Inmate Survey6. Beyond the Interview: Complementing and Validating Accounts of Incarcerated Violent OffendersPart 3: Field Settings 7. Method, Actor and Context Triangulations: Knowing What Happened During Criminal Events and the Motivations for Getting Involved 8. Repeat, Triangulate and Reflect: Ethnographic Validity in a Study on Urban Minority Youth 9. Getting Good Data from People that Do Bad Things: Effective Methods and Techniques for Conducting Research with Hard-to-Reach and Hidden PopulationsPart 4: Social Categories of Offenders and Researchers 10. The Impact of Gender when Interviewing 'Offenders on Offending' 11. Talking to Snakeheads: Methodological Considerations for Research on Chinese Human Smuggling 12. Blue-collar, White-collar: Crimes and Mistakes Part 5: Learning About the Actn 13. Research on Residential Burglary: Ways of Improving Validity and Participants' Recall when Gathering Data 14. The Use of Maps in Offender Interviewing 15. Interviewing Offenders in a Penitentiary Environment and the Use of Mental Maps During Interviews 16. Validating Offenders' Accounts: Learning from Offender Interviews with Bank Robbers in Austrian Prisons
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