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The Pains of Doing Criminological Research
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Handbooks of research mainly focus on research methods and techniques and leave the person
of the researcher out of focus. This book explicitly starts from the experiences of criminology
researchers and tells about the 'pains' they encounter when doing research. By giving voice to
the researchers themselves, this book fills a gap that is rarely touched upon in the classical
textbooks. These tales of the field witness about the often hidden difficulties and pitfalls of
doing research and focus on often-neglected questions. What does it mean to do research in a
hyper masculine environment as a prison? What are the challenges to get access to a police
organization or to private intelligence organizations and private security companies? How
does a researcher cope with her/his own emotions during fieldwork? How does an ex-convict
experience the process of becoming a researcher? What are the hidden or unexpected
problems of publishing? What are the challenges of doing comparative research?
These are only a few questions that are dealt with in this book, which is written by researchers
for researchers and students. Although it starts from a criminological perspective, researchers
from other disciplines will also benefit of the sharing and comparing of similar experiences.
This book is written by scholars of the Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. They are all members of the research group Crime and Society (CRiS).
of the researcher out of focus. This book explicitly starts from the experiences of criminology
researchers and tells about the 'pains' they encounter when doing research. By giving voice to
the researchers themselves, this book fills a gap that is rarely touched upon in the classical
textbooks. These tales of the field witness about the often hidden difficulties and pitfalls of
doing research and focus on often-neglected questions. What does it mean to do research in a
hyper masculine environment as a prison? What are the challenges to get access to a police
organization or to private intelligence organizations and private security companies? How
does a researcher cope with her/his own emotions during fieldwork? How does an ex-convict
experience the process of becoming a researcher? What are the hidden or unexpected
problems of publishing? What are the challenges of doing comparative research?
These are only a few questions that are dealt with in this book, which is written by researchers
for researchers and students. Although it starts from a criminological perspective, researchers
from other disciplines will also benefit of the sharing and comparing of similar experiences.
This book is written by scholars of the Criminology Department of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. They are all members of the research group Crime and Society (CRiS).
Series: Criminologische Studies
Number of pages: 216
ISBN:978-90-5718-263-1
Publication year:2013
Keywords:criminological research
Authors:International