Required reading:
Noaks, L., and Wincup, E. (2011) Criminological Research: Understanding qualitative methods, London: Sage Publications. Read chapter 7, ‘Using documentary evidence in qualitative research’, pp. 106-120. Access ebook via iDiscover
Cameron, D. and Panovic I. (2014) Working with Written Discourse, London: Sage. Read chapter 1, ‘Discourse and discourse analysis’, mainly the section ‘Power, knowledge and practice: discourse(s) and the construction of social reality’, pp. 6–12.
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- See also: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/discourse-analysis (An introduction to discourse analysis).
Further reading:
Plummer, K. (2001) Documents of Life 2: An invitation to a critical humanism, 2nd ed., London: Sage Publications.
Wetherell M., Taylor S. and Yates, S.J. (2001) Discourse Theory and Practice: A reader, London: Sage Publications.
Scott, J. (1990) A Matter of Record, Cambridge: Polity.
Godfrey, B. (2012) ‘Historical and archival research methods’ in D. Gadd, S. Karstedt and S.F. Messner (eds) The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods, London: Sage, pp. 159-174.
Hine, C. (2012) The Internet: Understanding qualitative research, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Irwin, S. and Winterton, A. (2011) Debates in Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Critical reflections: a Timescapes working paper, Leeds: Timescapes. http://www.timescapes.leeds.ac.uk/assets/files/WP4-March-2011.pdf
Prior, L. (2011) ‘Using documents in social research’, in D. Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Research, 3rd edition, London: Sage, pp. 93-110.