Sociology - Unstructured Interviews + Crime and Deviance
- Created by: Iqra
- Created on: 21-12-12 19:12
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- Unstructured Interviews {Crime & Deviance}
- Power and Status Inequality
- Can overcome barriers of power and status inequality.
- Due to informal manner, a rapport can emerge, this could encourage interviewees to respond more fully.
- This then producing more valid data, this can be useful when talking about sensitive topics like violence crime victims, childhood abuse or racism in the CJS
- Recording Data
- Those involved may be unwilling to have responses recorded on a digital recorder for fear of incrimination.
- To offender or police, recording by writing could seem as though an official report is being written about them
- Safety
- Due to direct contact with certain violent offenders, it could raise safety issues.
- Access may be limited due to safety concers
- Access
- Difficult to find suitable interview venue's. Criminals may be concerned with talking to a researcher who may look like a police officer or journalist.
- Homes, or workplaces are inappropriate for certain people and prisons provide little privacy for sensitive topics.
- Validity
- Some involved in crime have slang language and this type of interview provides the researcher to stop and ask specific meanings.
- Few researchers have personal experience of crime, so open ended exploratory nature of these questions, means that the researcher can learn as they go.
- Some involved in crime have slang language and this type of interview provides the researcher to stop and ask specific meanings.
- Rapport
- Those being interviewed are likely to be defensive and suspicious, therefore a high level of trust is needed.
- Fear of possible punishment could lead to the truth being harder to discover. Therefore the relaxed nature of unstructured interviews could be more helpful here.
- Reliablity
- The relaxed atmosphere cannot be standardized, therefore different interviewers may maintain different results, this reduces the reliability of the findings.
- Power and Status Inequality
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