Ethnography at the Edge

by Ferrell, Jeff; Hamm, Mark S.

• ISBN13: 9781555533410
• ISBN10: 1555533418
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-01
• Publisher: Northeastern Univ Pr

Summary

Pioneering criminologists and sociologists vividly recount the personal and professional tribulations of conducting field research with deviant and criminal subcultures.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Moving Backward	xii	(5)
Patricia A. Adler
Peter Adler
Preface	xvii
Introduction	1	(42)
True Confessions: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research	2	(18)
Jeff Ferrell
Mark S. Hamm
Criminological Verstehen: Inside the Immediacy of Crime	20	(23)
Jeff Ferrell
Homeless and Marginal Populations: Streets and Shelters	43	(44)
Ethnographers, Pimps, and the Company Store	44	(21)
Mark S. Fleisher
Shattered Lives and Shelter Lies? Anatomy of Research Deviance in Homeless Programming and Policy	65	(22)
Bruce A. Arrigo
Militarism, Terror, and the State	87	(44)
Enjoying Militarism: Political/Personal Dilemmas in Studying U.S. Police Paramilitary Units	88	(23)
Peter B. Kraska
The Ethnography of Terror: Timothy McVeigh and the Blue Centerlight of Evil	111	(20)
Mark S. Hamm
Sex Work and Gender Work	131	(28)
Reversing the Ethnographic Gaze: Experiments in Cultural Criminology	132	(14)
Stephanie Kane
(Dis)Courtesy Stigma: Fieldwork among Phone Fantasy Workers	146	(13)
Christine Mattley
Drugs and Drug Worlds: Urban and Rural	159	(46)
Researching Crack Dealers: Dilemmas and Contradictions	160	(18)
Bruce A. Jacobs
Marijuana Subcultures: Studying Crime in Rural America	178	(27)
Ralph A. Weisheit
Edgework, Honesty, and Criminality	205	(48)
Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage	206	(15)
Kenneth D. Tunnell
Dangerous Methods: Risk Taking and the Research Process	221	(32)
Stephen Lyng
Conclusions and Prospects	253	(20)
Confessions of Danger and Humanity	254	(19)
Mark S. Hamm
Jeff Ferrell
References	273	(28)
Contributors	301	(4)
Index	305