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With the growth of qualitative research within the fields of criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) it is important to examine discipline standards and expectations of how to collect and analyze qualitative data and to present research findings. Our aim here is to assess qualitative research published in 17 top CCJ journals during the period of 201...
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... particular, we gathered information pertaining to their discussions of coding, inter-coder/interrater reliability, saturation, use of grounded theory, coding styles, follow-up with participants, software use, and discussions of positionality. Summary findings of this analysis are presented in Table 5. Of the total articles sampled, 48.8% discussed how the authors coded the data that were collected while 51.1% omitted such text. ...Citations
... The number of articles published per issue has increased across CCJ journals as well (Cohn & Farrington, 2014;Roche et al., 2019). Although their goal was to assess the nature of qualitative research published in CCJ journals over two ten-year periods, Copes et al. found that the number of articles published in these journals nearly doubled from the first decade of the twenty first Century to the second (and the number of qualitative articles quadrupled) (Copes et al., 2020). ...
Given that most criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) doctoral
programs are housed in departments featuring a “publish or perish”
environment, to what extent are doctoral students affected
by this environment? To answer this question, we examined CCJ
doctoral students’ perceived publication pressure (PPP) and
self-reported feelings of burnout and how these feelings were
influenced by situational factors (e.g. mentorship, impostorism, and
publication self-efficacy) and students’ backgrounds (e.g. age, race,
native-born status). Data for the study are from a purposive sample
of CCJ doctoral students (n = 185) enrolled at 44 U.S. programs
who completed an anonymous online survey during the Fall of
2023. Students reported moderate levels of both PPP and feeling
burned out. Being funded and publication self-efficacy were protective factors against PPP. Increased levels of PPP-stress were associated with increased odds of reporting burnout, while increased levels of publication self-efficacy were associated with reduced the odds of reporting burnout.
... The location of this research is in the Tanjungpinang area, in this study the data of female perpetrators who commit criminal acts are perpetrators recorded in 2023, this research uses a type of qualitative research on the grounds that this approach will enable a more in-depth research process in the form of seeing what basic factors make a woman commit a criminal act (Copes et al. 2020). In this study the overall population was 12 female suspects in criminal cases at Tanjungpinang Police Station and then in this study the sampling technique in research based on certain considerations or purposive sampling, the criteria in this study were women who committed criminal acts or violations of the law in the Tanjungpinang City area with the number of informants as many as 8 female suspects in criminal cases. ...
This study aims to identify and analyze the factors that cause women to come into conflict with the law in the Tanjungpinang area, focusing on women as perpetrators of criminal acts. The research method utilized involved in-depth interviews with informants who have direct experience related to this issue. The findings indicate that economic factors, social environment, and family conditions are the main drivers of women's involvement in criminal activities. Urgent financial needs often force women to seek quick solutions through illegal avenues, such as fraud and theft. The social environment that permits and normalizes deviant behavior influences individuals' mindsets and actions, thus increasingly driving women to engage in illegal activities. Furthermore, the dynamics within the family, including internal conflicts and lack of emotional support, also contribute to women's decisions to confront the law. In addition to external factors, the psychological and emotional conditions of women, such as poor mental health due to stigma and discrimination, are significant factors that exacerbate their situations. This study emphasizes the importance of social support, appropriate rehabilitation, and educational programs for women involved in criminal behavior. Therefore, this research aims to provide valuable insights for policymakers and the community to develop more effective and inclusive prevention strategies for women in Tanjungpinang.
... In some cases, it is possible to evaluate the ability to express the message correctly, often providing important additional information to help understand the written result (in the form of a narrative or essay). This type of study is mostly used in the prison population, particularly men convicted for drug offenses and violence (12). It has been shown that qualitative methodology is essential for studies with individuals belonging to these populations. ...
Introduction
People with language difficulties cannot face challenges related to social skills. Those language disorders affect academic, work environments, and social interaction, leading to maladaptive and aggressive behaviors. Young inmates are at high risk of experiencing unrecognized language deficiencies. It is, therefore, necessary to analyze linguistic pathologies that can influence criminal behavior (drugs possession/consumption and gender violence crimes). There are many standardized tests to evaluate and detect language difficulties in adults in English. However, there are relatively few options in Spanish; there are no tests that evaluate language qualitatively and in depth. Most of the research is conducted with children and adolescents.
Objectives
To propose a reliable coding system for the correction and interpretation of narratives (essays and narratives) from the Battery for the Evaluation of Writing Processes (PROESC) in the prisoners charged of drugs possession or consumption and gender violence crimes.
Design
The sample was composed of 287 men.
Main outcome measures
They completed the Demographic, Offense, and Behavioral Interview in Institutions, the International Personality Disorders Examination (IPDE), and PROESC.
Results
We found that the proposed coding system presented high concordance, that is, high inter-rater reliability.
Conclusion
The classification system for the correction and interpretation of narratives was shown to be reliable.
... Approximately half of the desistance research in our sample used qualitative approaches. Although our research was not limited to leading journals, this finding may be in stark contrast to the findings of Copes et al. (2020), who conducted a content analysis of qualitative research published in top criminology and criminal justice journals between 2010 and 2019 and found that only 11.3% of the studies in these journals employed a qualitative approach. This equal quantitative-qualitative divide in desistance research may be promising, not just because qualitative criminologists frequently lament the 49 (25.0%) ...
In the past decade, desistance research has attracted immense research attention, which has necessitated the clarification of the overall picture of desistance research in terms of methodology, definition, and theory. Using the systematic quantitative literature review method, we seek to provide an overview of English-written peer-reviewed journal articles on desistance from 2011 to 2020. Analysis of 196 studies reveals that despite an almost equal quantitative–qualitative divide in desistance research, there is skewness in terms of research location, sample size, and usage of operationalization and theory. Based on these findings, we suggest the future direction of desistance research.
... The examination of the data for this systematic review makes use of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Because the vast majority of the published articles found during the study are qualitative, content analysis is the most frequently used method [35][36][37]. The content analysis process entails the methodical inspection and evaluation of the textual material included within the chosen articles. ...
Annotation: AI moderates ethical commitment and creative accounting in this study. The goal is to examine how AI affects organisations' ethical commitment and creative accounting practices. The mixed-methods study uses qualitative and quantitative data. The introduction discusses ethical accounting and creative accounting difficulties. It emphasises the necessity for good financial reporting ethics detection and prevention. The problem statement concerns the absence of study on how AI mitigates innovative accounting practices and affects ethical commitment. AI can improve accounting transparency, accuracy, and consistency. This study examines how AI moderates ethical commitment and creative accounting practices. It explores how AI can detect and avoid creative accounting, promoting ethical financial reporting. The methodology includes research design, participant selection, and data collection. It analyses financial data from a sample of organisations in various industries and interviews accounting professionals. The study results are in the results section. AI moderates the link between ethical commitment and inventive accounting practices. The results show that AI can reduce creative accounting and promote ethical financial reporting. The study advises organisations and policymakers. It recommends using AI-powered tools to detect and prevent creative accounting. Training and awareness programs are also stressed. Finally, this study examines AI's moderating effect on ethical commitment and creative accounting practices. It shows how AI may reduce unethical behaviour and improve financial reporting ethics. AI in accounting and ethical decision-making should be studied in the future.
... In-depth interviewing is a well-established method widely used in criminology and criminal justice (Brent & Kraska, 2021;Copes et al., 2020). Normative in pure and applied crime and justice research, semi-structured questionnaires are also well-suited for both purposive and exploratory data collection (Copes & Miller, 2015;Corbin & Strauss, 2014;Creswell & Creswell, 2017). ...
Preserving and documenting the contributions of leading scholarship within criminology and criminal justice is essential to understanding the history of the field and serves to reaffirm high scholarly standards among the next generation of scholars. The current study, drawing from a leading professional organization within the field, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS), engages an oral history documentation of the recipients of the three most prestigious ACJS accolades. These awards are bestowed to respected, well-known scholars, although only six total in the history of the organization have been awarded all three, two have since passed away. We conducted in-depth interviews utilizing a semi-structured questionnaire with the four remaining Triple Crown winners. The importance of collaboration with other scholars is a key theme highlighted throughout, including in the capacity of official and unofficial mentors, external funding, publications, and professional organizations, to name a few.
... In 2020, Heith Copes and colleagues conducted an extensive content analysis of the qualitative research that had been published in the top 17 criminology and criminal justice journals. Copes, Beaton, Ayeni, Dabney, and Tewksbury (2020) noted that published articles primarily employed fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and mixed methods. Using mixed methods in research often results in robust findings that are more easily published. ...
... Using mixed methods in research often results in robust findings that are more easily published. 2 The good news is that the popularity of qualitative studies is showing a slow but steady growth (Copes et al., 2020;Tewksbury et al., 2005Tewksbury et al., , 2014. ...
... The findings of Copes et al. (2020), however, remain moderately discouraging and confirm that a low percentage of publications from 2010 through 2019 appeared in top-tiered criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals, though the trend could be interpreted as positive. During the study's timeframe, 11% of all articles in the 17 CCJ journals employed qualitative methods. ...
Many of us work in a dispiriting academic industry run by corporate philosophies which demand our time is increasingly spent towards marketing ourselves, writing grants, obtaining research funds and undertaking projects which generally tend to have less benefit for the people we study yet more for our academic kudos and that of our institutions. As university funding structures crumble and instead hone in on new student markets and the pursuit of big grants, the pressure on us increases and so, in turn, research calls become increasingly competitive. Many of us are continually rejected particularly if we try to do ethnographic research and even more so if it means that it is done ‘differently’, ‘unconventionally’ and ‘covertly’ with some of society’s most dangerous and hard-to-reach groups. Notwithstanding the time invested in writing proposals and even in the event they are successful, before commencement, projects must also secure ethical clearance – a means of research governance and control, which frowns on ethnography – thus reducing further time and resource away from the studying the fast-paced change of the twenty-first century. We subsequently believe that our academic worth thereafter translates to further investment in publishing in ‘high-impact-factor journals’ and producing a seemingly never-ending stream of social media updates and waiting for ‘likes’ about our ‘research excellence’ and academic activity. However, as I saw written on the wall of a building where thousands of Bosnians were executed in the 1990s genocide ‘a like doesn’t change the world’. In the same vein, we have to ask ourselves if what we are doing actually contributes to the positive social change we outline in our research proposals. If – because of restrictive funding calls and ethics committees – we cannot access the world’s most excluded groups, study between the nooks and crannies of democratic societies and propose unconventional research methods, how can we report on the real harms of the social structure? This paper offers a twofold reflection – firstly, how can one ‘break from the shackles’ of this academic capitalism, and secondly, it evidences what this liberation can produce by providing reflexive analysis of three ethnographic projects I have undertaken over the last 5 years: (1) a two-year study of Spain’s largest drug market, (2) a three-year study of the refugee crisis across Europe and (3) an 18-month undercover study of a luxury brothel.
... In 2020, Heith Copes and colleagues conducted an extensive content analysis of the qualitative research that had been published in the top 17 criminology and criminal justice journals. Copes, Beaton, Ayeni, Dabney, and Tewksbury (2020) noted that published articles primarily employed fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and mixed methods. Using mixed methods in research often results in robust findings that are more easily published. ...
... Using mixed methods in research often results in robust findings that are more easily published. 2 The good news is that the popularity of qualitative studies is showing a slow but steady growth (Copes et al., 2020;Tewksbury et al., 2005Tewksbury et al., , 2014. ...
... The findings of Copes et al. (2020), however, remain moderately discouraging and confirm that a low percentage of publications from 2010 through 2019 appeared in top-tiered criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) journals, though the trend could be interpreted as positive. During the study's timeframe, 11% of all articles in the 17 CCJ journals employed qualitative methods. ...
Criminological research is a challenging field in many ways. The discipline criticizes the labeling carried out by the criminal justice system, which marks certain groups of people as “deviant,” “criminal,” or “dangerous.” Nevertheless, criminological studies often fall into the same trap. By relying on labels that the criminal justice system has applied when accessing the field through prisons, probation officers, or other kinds of support systems for offenders, sampling and labeling are intertwined. This article scrutinizes how qualitative reconstructive research supports and reproduces social inequality. It applies the concept of “doing social problems” and emphasizes a constructionist point of view. Furthermore, we review the sampling mechanisms of recent studies: What concepts of “social problems” do we see? What world does the criminological research at hand reconstruct? In our conclusion, we call for a sensitive approach and a broad discussion of possibilities and limitations. To us, qualitative reconstructive research – in fact – seems to offer some solutions for making the processes of labeling visible. We ask how social knowledge systems concerning crime and deviance are constituted and how we, as criminologists, contribute to them through our research practice.
... and 12% of all articles between 2010 and 2019 (Copes et al., 2020). The strong emphasis on quantitative methods in CCJ has resulted in the demotion of qualitative methodologies. ...
Crime & Delinquency invited submissions for a special issue on Qualitative Criminology and Victimology in 2021. This double special issue aimed to amplify qualitative methodologies in criminology, criminal justice, and victimology research. The diverse range of articles and commentaries draw on a variety of qualitative methods to advance the discipline.
... As the call for this special issue of Crime & Delinquency makes abundantly clear, the fields of criminology and criminal justice have undermined qualitative scholarship. In fact, in Crime & Delinquency, only 1.6% of all articles published between 2010 and 2019 were qualitative in nature, the lowest percentage among the top 5 journals in the field (Copes et al., 2020). While the field of criminology did not begin as an exclusively quantitative endeavor, there has been a strong shift to a quantitative research focus within the discipline (Copes et al., 2016;Duster, 2001;Ross, 1992;Tewksbury et al., 2005). ...
... In 2008, Buckler found that out of 860 empirical articles, only 10% reported any data in qualitative form, versus 96.2% of the articles reporting some data in quantitative form. In the most recent examination of this trend, Copes et al. (2020) explore the use of qualitative research in the top 17 criminology and criminal justice journals between 2010 and 2019. They find that 11.3% of the articles used qualitative methodologies. ...
... While the number of qualitative articles seems higher in more recent years, Copes et al. (2020) explain, "Whether this is the start of a new trend, or a statistical anomaly is unclear. . . Hence, while the evidence supports the growth and increasing popularity of qualitative methods, it appears that the journals that are the most selective (at least in the United States) are those least likely to publish qualitative based analyses" (p. ...
Qualitative researchers encounter obstacles related to publishing, acceptability, research self-disclosure, rapport development, feelings of guilt or vulnerability, and opportunity that quantitative scholars often do not. Here we discuss our experiences with these obstacles related to one queer qualitative study in hopes that it will provide knowledge to the next generation of queer qualitative scholars. We begin by discussing the state of the field in terms of qualitative scholarship and queer criminology, then we discuss our own experiences doing qualitative queer criminology. Our goal is to show why qualitative queer criminology matters, that it can be done despite its challenges, and to encourage the field of criminology and criminal justice to become more inclusive of qualitative methodologies.
