Offenders on Offending: Learning about Crime from Criminals

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ISBN: 9781843927761 | 1843927764
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Copyright: 3/14/2011

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There are many things about crime that we can only learn from offenders. It is, however, not at all easy to find them and persuade them openly and truthfully to discuss their crimes. Most are difficult to reach, and many are unable or unwilling to provide the answers we need. Nevertheless, the offenders' perspective is vital to knowing and understanding crime: How did a person learn to commit an offence? How precisely was a specific crime enacted? What made the person commit the offence?

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List of figures and tables	p. vii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Notes on contributors	p. xi
Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xxi
Setting the stage
Learning about crime from criminals: editor's introduction	p. 3
Misinformation, misunderstanding and misleading as validity threats to offenders' accounts of offending	p. 13
Apprehending criminals: the impact of law on offender-based research	p. 23
Prison settings
Interviewing the incarcerated: pitfalls and promises	p. 49
Interviewing and validity issues in self-report research with incarcerated offenders: the Quebec inmate survey	p. 68
Beyond the interview: complementing and validating accounts of incarcerated violent offenders	p. 84
Field settings
Method, actor and context triangulations: knowing what happened during criminal events and the motivations for getting involved	p. 109
Repeat, triangulate and reflect: ethnographic validity in a study on urban minority youth	p. 130
Getting good data from people that do bad things: effective methods and techniques for conducting research with hard-to-reach and hidden populations	p. 141
Social categories of offenders and researchers
The impact of gender when interviewing 'offenders on offending'	p. 161
Talking to snakeheads: methodological considerations for research on Chinese human smuggling	p. 184
Blue-collar, white-collar: crimes and mistakes	p. 205
Learning about the act
Research on residential burglary: ways of improving validity and participants' recall when gathering data	p. 231
The use of maps in offender interviewing	p. 246
Interviewing offenders in a penitentiary environment and the use of mental maps during interviews	p. 273
Validating offenders' accounts: learning from offender interviews with bank robbers in Austrian prisons	p. 290
Index	p. 311
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