Offenders on Offending (eBook, PDF)

Learning about Crime from Criminals
Redaktion: Bernasco, Wim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134030033
• Artikelnr.: 41218526

Autorenporträt

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