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
Based on your research interests, please read any two ‘Further reading’ items below to be able to participate in classroom discussions.
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.
Herrity, K, Schmidt, B.E. and Warr, J. “Sensory “Heteroglossia” and social control: Sensory methodology and method.” In R. Faria and M. Dodge (eds), Qualitative Research in Criminology: Cutting-edge Methods. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. 125-139.
Padmanabhan, K. ‘How close is too close? Ethical tensions and reflections in the Breddon Centre.’ Embracing the Unknown. Policy Press, 2025. 145-155.
Shah, A. (2017) ‘Ethnography? Participant observation, a potentially revolutionary praxis’, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1): 45-59.