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.