Research Methods III:
Qualitative Research Methods in Criminology
Crim
862 - Spring 2024
[Last updated 17 March 2024]
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Some examples of research projects conducted by Crim 862 students of years past (made available to new students by permission of the respective authors):
* A Closer Look in Unusual Times.
Edited book of readings produced by the COVID-exiled 862ers of
Spring/2020
* Michaela McGuire’s interview-based
study about the creation of a Haida justice system
* Jeremy Cheung’s
examination of conflict management in two cryptomarkets
* Cory Eybergen’s ethnographic
study of a Downtown Eastside soup kitchen
* Nick Pauls’s content analytic study of media representations of
the opioid crisis
* Aaren
Ivers’s oral
history of two Indigenous women in Stó:lō
territory
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Part I: Getting
Organized |
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12
January |
Organizational issues * Term Research Project
Preliminary Guidelines/Specifications * Submitting your
proposal for ethics review *
Something to check out when you have a chance: Capturing Reality: The Art
of Documentary |
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19
January |
Getting Started *
Becker (1996): Epistemology of
Qualitative Research * Cresswell (2016):
Research
Questions *
O’Leary (2018): What is the power of the
research question? *
Becker (2001): Drugs: What Are
They? * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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26
January |
Site Selection, Sampling * Guest et al (2006): How Many Interviews Are
Enough? * Palys (2008): Purposive sampling * Rossmo
(2021): Dissecting
a criminal investigation * Smith (2017)
Generalizability in Qualitative Research *
Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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02
February |
Principles of Research Ethics * Taquette & de Matta Souza
(2022) Ethical
dilemmas in Qualitative Research * Almark et al (2009) Ethical
issues in the use of in-depth interviews * Palys & Lowman (2014): Chapters 20
and 21 from Protecting
Research Confidentiality *
Burles
& Bally (2018) Considerations
for Using Personal Narratives Shared on the Internet for Research * Latest
stable release of VeraCrypt for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. * Ethics Policies: * SFU Policy R20.01 (2013). Ethics Review of Research Involving Human Participants * Code of Ethics of
the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences * Chapter
10: Qualitative Research from TCPS-2 (2018) *
Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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09
February |
No class because of WSC. Your
proposal for ethics review is due no later than today. |
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Part II: Techniques, Design Considerations |
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16
February |
Interviews, Focus
Groups, Oral History *
King, Horrocks & Brooks (2019) Designing
an Interview Study * Krueger (2015): Overview of Focus Groups * Hesse-Biber & Leavy (2011):
Oral History * Borland (1991) That's Not What I Said * Submit
a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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23 February |
No class because of SFU reading
break |
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01
March |
Analyzing Archival Information:
Cultural Objects, Discourses * Palys
& Atchison (2013): Text, Image,
Audio, and Video: Making Sense of Non-Numeric Data * Pedneault (2013) Ted Bundy: An
analysis of the justificatory discourse of a serial killer * Marchetti & Bargallie
(2020) Life
as an Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Male Prisoner *
Guest: Chris Atchison on next steps
to analyzing with NVivo * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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08 March |
Ethnography *
Scott & Garner (2013) Ethnography: A
synopsis * Oscar et al (2018): Negotiations
and Research Bargains: Gaining Access *
Parry (2015): Conflict over sociologists’s narrative puts spotlight on ethnography *
Costello et al (2018) Netnography *
Video: Ross Kemp on
Gangs in Rio * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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15
March |
Participatory Action Research * Dupont
(2008): PAR with marginalized
populations * Bowen & O’Doherty
(2014) Participant-Driven
action research with sex workers in Vancouver * BoilevinEtAl
(2019) Research 101: A
Manifesto for Ethical Research in the DES * A Summary of Principles and Challenges
Regarding PAR * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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Part III: Analyzing and
Disseminating |
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22
March |
Coding and Analyzing Qualitative Data * Saldana (2016): An Introduction to Codes and Coding * Cresswell (2016): Developing Theme
Passages * King, Horrocks & Brooks (2019): An
Introduction to Interview Data Analysis * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings |
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29
March |
No class due to Easter holiday |
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05 April |
Writing and Presenting Your Work * Cresswell (2016): Writing in a Qualitative Way * Mitchell & Clark (2018): Five Steps to Writing More Engaging Qualitative Research * Cresswell (2016): Publishing
a Qualitative Journal Article * Submit a 1-pager before class on any one of this week’s readings * Titles of your presentations needed by today |
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12
April |
Project Presentations |
Other
course-related resources:
Faculty/staff/grad
student download of most recent NVivo
SFU Research Commons
— access to resources related to research, writing.
Research
Commons: Workshops
for grad students and postdocs