This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly work that supplements their own contributions and covers a variety of qualitative methods: participant observation, interviewing and interview coding, focus groups, autoethnography, life history, narrative analysis, content analysis, and participatory visual methods. The chapters are framed in terms of...

Now fully revised, Crime, Justice, and Society is designed not only to introduce students to the core issues of criminology, but also to help them think critically about often-sensationalized topics. Features of the fourth edition include:A student-friendly, streamlined organizationFirsthand perspectives from offenders, victims, and criminal justice professionalsExpanded coverage of white-collar and government crimeA focus on the dynamics of race, class, and ethnicityA chapter on drug-related crime and antidrug lawsDiscussion of topics in the news: marijuana laws, sex trafficking,...