Sociology - Structured Interviews + Crime and Deviance
- Created by: Iqra
- Created on: 20-12-12 20:03
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- Structured Interviews {Crime & Deviance}
- Response Rate
- They take less time compared to unstructured interviews, and therefore they are less disruptive to the CJS
- This means that the research is more likely to get official support
- The hierarchical nature of CJS agencies means that the researcher could get favoured and then the response rate will increase
- This means that the research is more likely to get official support
- They take less time compared to unstructured interviews, and therefore they are less disruptive to the CJS
- Reliablity
- Structured interviews are easy to replicate
- Therefore large scale patterns in behaviour can be identified { Gender and Offending}
- Structured interviews are easy to replicate
- Validity
- Due to offenders having low literacy skills, researcher may be more successful than they would be with written questionnaires
- However the formal nature of interviews could remind the offender of interviews with the police, this meaning that the young offenders have less forthcoming.
- Due to offenders having low literacy skills, researcher may be more successful than they would be with written questionnaires
- Question design
- More difficult to create questions for use with young offenders due to their lack of literacy and linguistic skills not being fully developed.
- This could then lead to them not fully understanding. This meaning that they may need more help and clarification, something which they are unlikely to receive in this method
- Sensitivity
- These issues are more sensitive than most social issues, and the format of structured interviews may not be the best option.
- All those who have been involved have had some degree of trauma that needs to be dealt with in a more sensitive manner than structured interviews allow.
- Power and Status differences
- Prisoners may seek approval of those in authority by providing untrue but socially unacceptable answers.
- Researchers may be seen as authority figures, and this would reduce the validity of the interview data.
- Prisoners may seek approval of those in authority by providing untrue but socially unacceptable answers.
- Response Rate
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