Notes on qualitative research in a female imprisonment unit: experiencing contradictions and challenges in criminological-critical investigation

Authors

  • Marilia Montenegro Pessoa de Mello Professora na UFPE e UNICAP. Doutora pelo PPGD-UFSC. Mestre pelo PPGD-UFPE. Coordenadora do Grupo Asa Branca de Criminologia.
  • Carolina Salazar l’Armée Q. de Medeiros
  • Érica Babini Machado
  • Helena Rocha Coutinho de Castro
  • Manuela Abath Valença

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18316/2094

Keywords:

Critical Criminology, Methodology, Etiology.

Abstract

It is work that aims to stimulate the methodological self-reflection of the investigative practice of criminology from the experience lived by the authors in conducting research project¹ in which they could verify unconscious beliefs of etiological structure in the research, regardless of experience and use of the paradigm of social reaction. The identification of this content made clear the subjectivist risks of the selectivity restoration at the internal level of the total institution, the existence of etiological content in actions and spontaneous thoughts of the researchers, as well as the need to use the method while objectification possible to limit the tendency to leave the familiar surprising.

Published

2015-05-26

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Section

Articles