Slides on Moodle
Required reading:
Haggerty et al (2021) ‘Introduction: The promises and challenges of crime ethnographies’ in S.M. Bucerius et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice, Oxford: OUP, Chapter 1. pp. 1-17
Krishnan, S. (2015) ‘Dispatches from a ‘rogue’ ethnographer: Exploring homophobia and queer visibility in the field’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford Online, 7(1): 64–79
Further reading:
Crewe, B. (2006) ‘Prison drug dealing and the ethnographic lens’, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 45(4): 347-368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2006.00428.x
Hammersley, M. (1998) ‘The nature of ethnography’, in Reading Ethnographic Research: A critical guide, 2nd ed., London, Longman, pp. 1-20, or the equivalent chapter in the 1990 edition. (Download from Moodle)
Jauregui, B. (2021) ‘Police Labor and Exploitation: Case Study of North India’ in S.M. Bucerius et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Ethnographies of Crime and Criminal Justice, Oxford: OUP, Chapter 23. pp. 488-511.
Maher, L. (1997) ‘Appendix: On reflexivity, reciprocity, and ethnographic research’, in Sexed Work: Gender, race and resistance in a Brooklyn drug market, Oxford: Clarendon.
Wakeman, S. (2014) ‘Fieldwork, biography and emotion: Doing criminological autoethnography’, British Journal of Criminology, 54(5): 705-721.
Willis, R. (2019) ‘Observations online: Finding the ethical boundaries of Facebook research’, Research Ethics, 15(1): 1-17.
For a sophisticated and combative debate on ethnographic practice, see Wacquant’s (2002) ‘Scrutinizing the street: poverty, morality, and the pitfalls of urban ethnography’, and the responses by Duneier, Anderson and Newman, in the American Journal of Sociology, 107(6): 1468-1532, 1533- 1550, 1551–1576, and 1577–1599.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2002/107/6