Doing Research on Crime and Justice

by King, Roy D.; Wincup, Emma

• ISBN13: 9780198765400
• ISBN10: 0198765401
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume brings together research principles with the practical issues of carrying out research to provide a clear and fascinating guide to the reality of contemporary criminological research. The experience of leading experts is combined with first-hand accounts from new scholars, to provide a text that students can refer to throughout their criminological studies. Doing Research on Crime and Justice is divided into five parts, and covers practice and politics in criminology; theory, data and types of criminological research; research on crime, criminals and victims; research on criminal justice agencies and institutions, and concludes with four case studies from new scholars. Incorporating a new international perspective, this volume also addresses contemporary issues such as cyber crime, and provides guidance on conducting research in situations of cultural diversity.

Author Biography

Roy King is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director of the Centre for Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice in the University of Wales, Bangor. He has previously held positions at the Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit, and the Universities of London and Southampton in the UK and Yale University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in the United States. He has specialised in prison research for many years and has conducted studies across the world. At various times he has acted in an advisory capacity to prison services in England and Wales, Scotland, and the US. He has also carried out missions as a prisons expert for Amnesty International, the Council of Europe and Penal Reform International amongst others.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Notes on Contributors	xxiii
List of Tables	xxv
List of Figures	xxvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Roy D. King
Emma Wincup
PART 1: THEORY AND POLITICS IN CRIMINOLOGY
The Relationship Between Theory and Research in Criminology	15	(46)
Anthony Bottoms
The Politics of Criminological Research	61	(30)
Rod Morgan
PART 2: RESEARCH ON CRIME, CRIMINALS, AND VICTIMS
Researching the State of Crime: Local, National, and International Victim Surveys	91	(30)
Pat Mayhew
Researching` Street Criminals':A Neglected Art	121	(32)
Mike Maguire
Researching Serious Crime	153	(30)
Dick Hobbs
Researching Victims	183	(22)
Sandra Walklate
PART 3: RESEARCH ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS
Police Research	205	(32)
Robert Reiner
Research on the Criminal Courts	237	(22)
John Baldwin
Research on Community Penalties	259	(26)
George Mair
Doing Research on in Prisons	285	(30)
Roy D. King
PART 4: RESEARCH: FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE
`Down and Outers': Fieldwork Amongst Street Homeless People	315	(16)
Julia Wardhaugh
Breaking in: Researching Criminal Justice Institutions for Women	331	(20)
Catrin Smith
Emma Wincup
Mafia, Methodology, and `Alien' Culture	351	(12)
Patricia Rawlinson
Sad, Bad, and (Sometimes) Dangerous to Know: Street Corner Research with Prostitutes, Punters, and the Police	363	(10)
Karen Sharpe
Going Around the Houses: Researching in High Crime Communities	373	(12)
Lynn Hancock
Suspect Data: Arresting Research	385	(10)
Carole Adams
Being `A Nosy Bloody Cow': Ethical and Methodological Issues in Research ing Domestic Violence	395	(12)
Carolyn Hoyle
The Numbers Game: Quantitative Researchon Ethnicity and Criminal Justice	407	(12)
Bonny Mhlanga
Researching the Powerful: Towards a Political Economy of Method?	419	(12)
Dave Whyte
Index	431