Extended Reading List for Crim 862

Articles for possible presentation are noted with an asterisk*

Underlined articles indicate hyperlinks that can be accessed from course web page; 
single copies of the others will be available through our course library.

The Logic of Qualitative Inquiry

*Palys, T.S. (1989). Addressing the third criterion. In I. Benbasat (Ed.) The information systems research challenge:  Experimental research methods.  Boston:  Harvard University Business School, pp.133-146.

Getting Started

*Becker, H. (1996). The epistemology of qualitative research.  From R. Jessor, A. Colby, and R. Shweder (Eds.), Ethnography and human development: Context and meaning in social inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

*Becker, H.S. (1993).  How I learned what a ‘crock’ was.  Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22, 28-35.

*Broadhead,  R. S., and Rist,  R. C. (1976). Gatekeepers and the social control of social research. Social Problems, 23(3), pp. 325-336.

Sampling

*Becker (1998). Sampling. Chapter 3 from H.S.Becker, Tricks of the trade: How to think of your research while you’re doing it. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp.67-108.

*Stake, R.E.  (2003). Case studies. From N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) Strategies of qualitative inquiry (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp.134-164.

Palys, T. (2008). Purposive sampling.  In Lisa M. Given (Ed.) The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research methods. Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA, Vol.2, pp.697-698.

Ethics

* Palys, T., and Lowman, J. (2000). Ethical and legal strategies for protecting confidential research information. Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 15(1), 39-80.

Whiteman, E. (2007). “Just chatting”: Research ethics and cyberspace. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 6(2). Article 7.

*Fine, M., Weis, L., Weseen, S., and Wong, L. (2003). For whom? Qualitative research, representations, and social responsibilities. From N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) The landscape of qualitative research (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp.167-207.

Ethics Regulation

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Special Working Committee (2004). Giving Voice to the Spectrum. Report prepared for the federal Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics. Online at http://www.utoronto.ca/sociology/docs/sshwcvjune2004.pdf

Adler, P.A., and Adler, P. (2002). Do university lawyers and the police define research values? In W.C. van den Hoonaard (Ed.) Walking the tightrope: Ethical issues for qualitative researchers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp.34-42.

Amit, V. (2000). The university as panopticon: Moral claims and attacks on academic freedom. In M.Strathern (Ed.) Audit cultures: Anthropological studies in accountability, ethics and the academy. London: Routledge, pp.215-235.

Qualitative Methods and the Digital Revolution

*Atchison, C. (1999). Navigating the virtual minefield: Using the internet as a medium for conducting primary social research. In D. Currie, D. Hay, and B. MacLean (Eds.) Exploring the social  world: Social research in action. Collective Press: Vancouver.

Palys, T., and Atchison, C. (2009). Qualitative research at the gates of the digital age: Obstacles and opportunities. Keynote address for the 10th Annual Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology.

Interview and Oral History Methods

Reinharz, S (1992). Feminist oral history methods. Chapter 7 from Feminist methods in social research. NY: Oxford University Press, pp.126-144.

*Borland, K. (1991). “That’s not what I said”: Interpretive conflict in oral narrative research. From S.B.Gluck and D. Patai (Eds.) Women’s words: The feminist practice of oral history. NY: Routledge, pp.63-75.

Ethnography and Autoethnography

*Ellis, C., and Bochner, A.P. (2003). Autoethnography, personal narrative, reflexivity: Researcher as subject. From N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) Collecting and interpreting qualitative materials (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp.199-258.

*Wall, S. (2008). Easier said than done: Writing an autoethnography. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.

* Margolis, E. (1994) Video ethnography: Toward a reflexive paradigm for documentary.  Originally published in Jump Cut, 19, 122-131.

*Mattley, C. (1998). (Dis)courtesy stigma: Fieldwork among phone fantasy workers. In J. Ferrell & M.S.Hamm (Eds.) Ethnography at the edge: Crime, deviance and field research. Boston: Northwestern University Press, pp.146-158.

Legal Research

Smith, L. (1989). What is feminist legal research? In W. Tomm (Ed.). The effects of feminist approaches on research methodologies. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 71-110.

*MacMartin, C. (2004). Judicial constructions of the seriousness of child sexual abuse. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 36(1), 66-80.

(Participatory) Action Research

Kemmis, S., and McTaggart, R. (2003). Participatory action research. From N.K. Denzin & Y.S. Lincoln (Eds.) Strategies of qualitative inquiry (2nd ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp.336-396.