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The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, issues, and debates that crime ethnographers have been grappling with for over a century. This volume brings together an outstanding group of scholars to discuss various research traditions, the ethical and pragmatic challenges associated with conducting crime-related fieldwork, relevant policy recommendations for practitioners in the field, and areas of future research for crime ethnographers.
List of contents
- Chapter One: Introduction: The Promises and Challenges of Crime Ethnographies
- Kevin D. Haggerty, Sandra Bucerius, and Luca Berardi
- Chapter Two: The History of (Crime) Ethnography
- Luca Berardi
- Chapter Three: Uneasy Relations: Crime Ethnographies and Research Ethics
- Kevin D. Haggerty
- Chapter Four: Pragmatics of Crime Ethnographies
- Sandra Bucerius
- Chapter Five: Ethnography and Criminal Cultures
- Dick Hobbs
- Chapter Six: Politics and Policy
- Keith Guzik and Gary T. Marx
- Chapter Seven: Mixed Methods
- Nigel G. Fielding
- Chapter Eight: Team Ethnographies in Studying Crime and Criminal Justice
- Heith Copes and Lynne Vieraitis
- Chapter Nine: Global Crime Ethnographies: Three Suggestions for a Criminology That Truly Travels
- Henrik Vigh and David Sausdal
- Chapter Ten: Case Study: "Tell mom I said hi": Confronting positionality in fieldwork
- Holly Pelvin
- Chapter Eleven: Cultural Criminology and Ethnography
- Jeff Ferrell
- Chapter Twelve: Studying the Gang Through Critical Ethnography
- David Brotherton
- Chapter Thirteen: Narrative Criminology and Ethnography
- Jennifer Fleetwood and Sveinung Sandberg
- Chapter Fourteen: Queer Criminology and Ethnography
- Vanessa R. Panfil
- Chapter Fifteen: Feminist Ethnographies
- Korey Tillman and Ranita Ray
- Chapter Sixteen: A Tour of Gang Ethnographies
- Elke Van Hellemont
- Chapter Seventeen: Entering the Street Field: A Case Study on Gangs
- Alistair Fraser
- Chapter Eighteen: Ethnographies of Organized Crime
- Federico Varese
- Chapter Nineteen: Drug Users
- J. Bryan Page
- Chapter Twenty: Drug Users: A Case Study
- Tim Turner and Tony Colombo
- Chapter Twenty-One: Nightlife Ethnography: A Phenomenological Approach
- Sébastien Tutenges
- Chapter Twenty-Two: Ethnographies of Drug Dealers
- Ric Curtis and Popy Begum
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Terrorism and Terrorists
- Natasha B. Khade and Scott Decker
- Chapter Twenty-Four: The Police
- Simon Holdaway
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Case study: Police Labor and Exploitation
- Beatrice Jauregui
- Chapter Twnety-Six: Court Ethnography
- Max Travers
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Prison Ethnography
- Jill A. McCorkel
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Prisons: Case Study
- Michael L. Walker
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: "You Have no Idea What we Do": Correctional Officers, Mental Health, and Prison Ethnography
- William Schultz
- Chapter Thirty: Ethnographies on Prisoner Reentry
- Andrea Leverentz
About the author
Sandra M. Bucerius is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and a Henry Marshall Tory Chair at the University of Alberta.
Kevin D. Haggerty is Canada Research Chair, Killam Research Laureate, and Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Alberta.
Luca Berardi is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Psychology at McMaster University.
Summary
Despite ethnography's long and distinguished history in the social sciences, its use in criminology is still relatively rare. Over the years, however, ethnographers in the United States and abroad have amassed an impressive body of work on core criminological topics and groups, including gang members, sex workers, drug dealers, and drug users. Ethnographies on criminal justice institutions have also flourished, with studies on police, courts, and prisons providing deep insights into how these organizations operate and shape the lives of people who encounter them.
The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice provides critical and current reviews of key research topics, issues, and debates that crime ethnographers have been grappling with for over a century. This volume brings together an outstanding group of ethnographers to discuss various research traditions, the ethical and pragmatic challenges associated with conducting crime-related fieldwork, relevant policy recommendations for practitioners in the field, and areas of future research for crime ethnographers. In addition to exhaustive overview essays, the handbook also presents case studies that serve as exemplars for how ethnographic inquiry can contribute to our understanding of crime and criminal justice-related topics.
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This new Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice will be a helpful resource for criminologists and other social scientists who wish to deepen their understanding of and ability to undertake meaningful ethnographic projects.
