Category: Methodology
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Interviews as power games
How an interview left me feeling deeply uncomfortable – and what this told me that the interviewee might not have.
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Interviews as transactions
How agreeing to do an interview became a negotiation, and what this says about the ‘rules of the game’ for prison research.
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The ‘rules of the game’ in prison research
The first of a series of posts reflecting on ethical and other dilemmas that have come up while I’ve been doing prison fieldwork.
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Comparing sentences, comparing offences (part 1)
This is the first of two posts thinking about how lifers (and others) might compare what it means to have different lengths of sentence. Selecting participants on tariff length One thing that has been on my mind lately is how to select a sample of people to interview. I’ll be working in two different prisons,…