Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology

ISBN-13: 9783030329990 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 166 str.

Olga Petintseva; Rita Faria; Yarin Eski

Recenzje

"The handbook provides exceptional strategies, recommendations, and guidelines for researchers who seek to conduct interviews with the powerful. ... This handbook is appropriate for a large audience including graduate students and all researchers/professors who seek to conduct quality qualitative analysis with powerful actors in a variety of disciplines. Overall, this book is exceptional, and I highly recommend it to those in the criminal justice field." (Megan J. Parker, Crime Law and Social Change, June 23, 2020)

"The book is particularly useful for those preparing for fieldwork who are not planning to study the kind of people the penal system is designed to detect, judge and lock up - the kind of people criminology is designed to study." (Ignacio González-Sánchez, European Journal of Probation, May 13, 2020)

Spis treści

Preface 4

Chapter 1. Introduction 6

Chapter 2. Interviewing ‘the powerful’ in crime and crime control 12

1.1. Introduction 12

1.2. Conceptual issues: who are the ‘powerful’, ‘elites’ and ‘experts’? 12

1.3. Particularities of qualitative interviews with the powerful 18

1.4. Why interview the powerful? 21

1.5. Core readings 23

References 24

Chapter 3. Interview models and researcher’s self-positioning 27

2.1. Introduction 27

2.2. Informal and ethnographic interviews 31

2.3. Doxastic interviews 34

2.4. Looking glass: Researcher as a peer 34

2.5. Active interviewing 39

2.5.1. Epistemic interviewing 40

2.5.2. ‘Light’ Socratic dialogues as a variation of epistemic interviewing 42

2.5.3. Interviewer as critic 46

2.6. Core readings 47

References 47

Chapter 4. Their reign, their game? Accessing the powerful 52

3.1. Introduction 52

3.2. Sampling 53

3.3. Gaining access 58

3.4. Maintaining access 69

3.5. Core readings 73

References 74

Chapter 5. Prepare, prepare, prepare 77

4.1. Introduction 77

4.2. Gaining insights in the setting and its ongoing debates 78

4.3. Constructing a topic list 80

4.4. Probing and elicitation 85

4.5. Core readings 86

References 86

Chapter 6. Conducting the interview 88

5.1. Introduction 88

5.2. Gaining trust and building rapport 88

5.3. Dealing with questions and assumptions about your knowledge and views 93

5.4. Ethics during the interview interaction 95

5.5. Language, jargon, body language, attitude 98

5.6. Getting into sensitive topics and past corporate answers 101

5.7. Physical setting 104

5.7.1. The interview venue 104

5.7.2. Interviewing in the online and offline world 108

5.8. Core readings 109

References 110

Chapter 7. Making sense of the data 113

6.1. Introduction 113

6.2. Transcribing and coding 113

6.3. Researcher as a situated actor 116

6.4. Assessing data quality 117

6.5. Ethics in analysis and reporting 126

6.6. Leaving the field and getting back to participants 129

6.7. Presenting your findings 131

6.8. Core readings 132

References 133

O autorze

Olga Petintseva is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her expertise is located at the intersection of criminology, migration studies and socio-linguistics.

Julie Tieberghien is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Ghent, Belgium. 

Rita Faria is Assistant Professor at the School of Criminology, University of Porto, Portugal. Rita does research in white-collar crime, research misconduct and the use of qualitative methods in Criminology. 

Yarin Eski is Assistant Professor at the Knowledge Hub Security and Social Resilience of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in 2015 from the University of Glasgow.