Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research.

Ferrell, Jeff.

Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research. - [Place of publication not identified] : University Press of New England, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword: Moving Backward; Preface; Introduction; True Confessions: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research; Criminological VerstehenI: Inside the Immediacy of Crime; Homeless and Marginal Populations: Streets and Shelters; Ethnographers, Pimps, and the Company Store; Shattered Lives and Shelter Lies? Anatomy of Research Deviance in Homeless Programming and Policy; Militarism, Terror, and the State; Enjoying Militarism: Political/Personal Dilemmas in Studying U.S. Police Paramilitary Units; The Ethnographyof Terror: Timothy McVeigh and the Blue Centerlight of Evil Sex Work and Gender WorkReversing the Ethnographic Gaze: Experiments in Cultural Criminology; (Dis)Courtesy Stigma: Fieldwork among Phone Fantasy Workers; Drugs and Drug Worlds: Urban and Rural; Researching Crack Dealers: Dilemmas and Contradictions; Marijuana Subcultures: Studying Crime in Rural America; Edgework, Honesty, and Criminality; Honesty, Secrecy, and Deception in the Sociology of Crime: Confessions and Reflections from the Backstage ; Dangerous Methods: Risk Taking and the Reseach Process; Conclusion sand Prospects; Confessions of Danger and Humanity; References; Contributors

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



9781555538651


Criminal anthropology--Research.
Criminal anthropology--Fieldwork.
Criminal behavior--Research.
Deviant behavior--Research.
Deviant behavior - Research.


Electronic Books.

HV6035 / .E846 2016