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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Place of publication not identified] : University Press of New England, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781555538651
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HV6035 .E846 2016
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Subject: Pioneering criminologists and sociologists vividly recount the personal and professional tribulations of conducting field research with deviant and criminal subcultures.
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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.

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