Sharpe, G.H. (2016) Sociological stalking? Methods, ethics and power in longitudinal criminological research. Criminology and Criminal Justice. ISSN 1748-8958
Abstract
Scholarship on criminal careers and desistance from crime employing longitudinal methodologies has paid scant attention to sociological and anthropological debates regarding epistemology, reflexivity and researcher positionality. This is surprising in light of a recent phenomenological turn in desistance research wherein (former) lawbreakers’ identity, reflexivity, and self-understanding have become central preoccupations. In this article I interrogate aspects of the methodological ‘underside’ (Gelsthorpe, 2007) of qualitative longitudinal research with criminalised women through an examination of the surveillant position of the researcher. Focusing on methods, ethics and power, I examine some contradictions of feminist concerns to ‘give women voice’ in research involving re-tracing an over-surveilled and highly stigmatised population. I reflect on the effects of researcher positionality through a conceptualisation of re-tracing methods as, at worst, a form of sociological stalking.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | ethics; power; surveillance; criminalised women; research methods |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Law (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Nov 2016 16:15 |
Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2018 04:21 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1177/1748895816669214 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications (UK and US) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1748895816669214 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:106844 |