Special Issue: Traditions and innovations in qualitative criminological research methods

Rita Faria • Olga Petintseva

Keywords

qualitative criminology; research methods in criminology 
 

Abstract

The special issue "Traditions and Innovations in Qualitative Criminological Research Methods" is published in Crime, Law and Social Change: An Interdisciplinary Journal, by Springer. 

This special issue (Volume 81, Issue 5) was edited by CIJ researcher Rita Faria and Olga Petintseva (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). 

It comprises the following articles:

• Traditions and innovations in qualitative criminological research methods (Olga Petintseva & Rita Faria)
• A farewell to the lone hero researcher: team research and writing (Sveinung Sandberg & Lucero Ibarra Rojas)
• Rich scholar, poor scholar: inequalities in research capacity, “knowledge” abysses, and the value of unconventional approaches to research (David Rodriguez Goye & May-Len Skilbrei)
• Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation (Janeille Zorina Matthews)
• Ethnographic semantics and documentary method in criminology. A combination of reconstructive approaches using the example of Municipal Law Enforcement Services (Ina Hennen)
• Mapmaking as visual storytelling: the movement and emotion of managing sex work in the urban landscape (Sara Jordenö & Amber Horning)
• The social perception of environmental victimization. A visual and sensory methodological proposal (Lorenzo Natali)