Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-33002-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which include: access, power imbalances, getting past ‘corporate answers’, considerations of whether or not it is at times acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to students and scholars conducting qualitative research.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petintseva, Olga

Eski, Yarin

Faria, Rita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 4
Chapter 1. Introduction 6
Chapter 2. Interviewing ‘the powerful’ in crime and crime control 121.1. Introduction 121.2. Conceptual issues: who are the ‘powerful’, ‘elites’ and ‘experts’? 121.3. Particularities of qualitative interviews with the powerful 181.4. Why interview the powerful? 211.5. Core readings 23References 24
Chapter 3. Interview models and researcher’s self-positioning 272.1. Introduction 272.2. Informal and ethnographic interviews 312.3. Doxastic interviews 342.4. Looking glass: Researcher as a peer 342.5. Active interviewing 392.5.1. Epistemic interviewing 402.5.2. ‘Light’ Socratic dialogues as a variation of epistemic interviewing 422.5.3. Interviewer as critic 462.6. Core readings 47References 47
Chapter 4. Their reign, their game? Accessing the powerful 523.1. Introduction 523.2. Sampling 533.3. Gaining access 583.4. Maintaining access 693.5. Core readings 73References 74
Chapter 5. Prepare, prepare, prepare 774.1. Introduction 774.2. Gaining insights in the setting and its ongoing debates 784.3. Constructing a topic list 804.4. Probing and elicitation 854.5. Core readings 86References 86
Chapter 6. Conducting the interview 885.1. Introduction 885.2. Gaining trust and building rapport 885.3. Dealing with questions and assumptions about your knowledge and views 935.4. Ethics during the interview interaction 955.5. Language, jargon, body language, attitude 985.6. Getting into sensitive topics and past corporate answers 1015.7. Physical setting 1045.7.1. The interview venue 1045.7.2. Interviewing in the online and offline world 1085.8. Core readings 109References 110
Chapter 7. Making sense of the data 1136.1. Introduction 1136.2. Transcribing and coding 1136.3. Researcher as a situated actor 1166.4. Assessing data quality 1176.5. Ethics in analysis and reporting 1266.6. Leaving the field and getting back to participants 1296.7. Presenting your findings 1316.8. Core readings 132References 133

Über Autor(innen)

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.