Researching Violence: Methodology and Measurement

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ISBN: 9780415301312 | 0415301319
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/23/2002

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This book offers a practical guide on how to research violence. Using reflections from researchers who have worked on diverse projects, this book also investigates the ethical and emotional issues arising from working with the victims and perpetrators of violence. This book will be indispensable for students and academics doing research projects on violence.

Figures and tables

vii

Contributors

viii

Introduction: methodological reflections

(12)

Elizabeth A. Stanko

Raymond M. Lee

PART I Documenting violence: counting and accounting for violence

(54)

Researching violence in the past: quantifiable and qualitative evidence

(15)

John E. Archer

Putting the Conflict Tactics Scale in context in violence from parent to child

(19)

Susan Creighton

Deborah Ghate

Neal Hazel

Julia Field

Steven Finch

Researching homicide: methodological issues in the exploration of lethal violence

(18)

Ruth Lewis

R. Emerson Dobash

Russell P. Dobash

Kate Cavanagh

PART II Enhancing data on violence

(88)

Tracking the pathways to violence in prison

(19)

Kimmett Edgar

Ian O'Donnell

Carol Martin

Dilemmas of control: methodological implications and reflections of foregrounding children's perspectives on violence

(19)

Christine Barter

Emma Renold

Safety talk, violence and laughter: methodological reflections on focus groups in violence research

107

(19)

Leslie J. Moran

Beverley Skeggs

Paul Tyrer

Karen Corteen

Researching violence: power, social relations and the virtues of the experimental method

126

(11)

Mark Levine

The rising tide of female violence? Researching girls' own understandings and experiences of violent behaviour

137

(18)

E. Kay M. Tisdall

PART III The impact of institutional contexts for the study of violence

155

(77)

Fear of reprisal: researching intra-communal violence in Northern Ireland and South Africa

157

(20)

Colin Knox

Rachel Monaghan

Veiling violence: the impacts of professional and personal identities on the disclosure of work-related violence

177

(15)

Maria O'Beirne

David Denney

Jonathan Gabe

Mary Ann Elston

Raymond M. Lee

Researching domestic violence in a maternity setting: problems and pitfalls

192

(25)

Loraine Bacchus

Gill Mezey

Susan Bewley

Racist violence from a probation service perspective: now you see it, now you don't

217

(15)

Larry Ray

David Smith

Liz Wastell

Index

232

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