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Policing County LinesNavigating a ‘Newsy’ Field

Policing County Lines: Navigating a ‘Newsy’ Field [Perhaps not wanting to keep his readers waiting any longer before presenting the findings of his time observing an English drug police squad at work, Collison (1995, p. 83) concluded a brief methodological account of his fieldwork by claiming that “enough has been said about ethnographic research”. There is certainly no paucity of texts that can be consulted by those wishing to learn more about undertaking qualitative inquiry, criminological or otherwise. However, as tempting as it is to rush forward to the presentation of my own data, in the context of this book, it would be remiss to omit a necessary and important methodological discussion. Just like Hobbs (2013), I have no desire to feel the wrath of the ‘methods police’. But I also consider there to be value in discussing the methodological foundations that make up this book’s empirical content and reflecting on my experiences of undertaking fieldwork on this particular subject. For the sake of transparency and for the analysis put forward in this book to be appreciated suitably, it is important to document how the study was actually carried out. Fieldwork involving the police poses unique and intriguing challenges, but so too in this case did the experience of conducting research on a ‘newsy’ topic. Reflecting on this will hopefully make a contribution to wider methodological concerns, outlining a research experience rarely considered in any real depth in the research methods literature. Corresponding with the general emphasis placed on the ‘reflexive turn’, doing so also provides further context to the analysis presented in the following chapters of this book.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-54192-7
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89 –106
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10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4_4
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[Perhaps not wanting to keep his readers waiting any longer before presenting the findings of his time observing an English drug police squad at work, Collison (1995, p. 83) concluded a brief methodological account of his fieldwork by claiming that “enough has been said about ethnographic research”. There is certainly no paucity of texts that can be consulted by those wishing to learn more about undertaking qualitative inquiry, criminological or otherwise. However, as tempting as it is to rush forward to the presentation of my own data, in the context of this book, it would be remiss to omit a necessary and important methodological discussion. Just like Hobbs (2013), I have no desire to feel the wrath of the ‘methods police’. But I also consider there to be value in discussing the methodological foundations that make up this book’s empirical content and reflecting on my experiences of undertaking fieldwork on this particular subject. For the sake of transparency and for the analysis put forward in this book to be appreciated suitably, it is important to document how the study was actually carried out. Fieldwork involving the police poses unique and intriguing challenges, but so too in this case did the experience of conducting research on a ‘newsy’ topic. Reflecting on this will hopefully make a contribution to wider methodological concerns, outlining a research experience rarely considered in any real depth in the research methods literature. Corresponding with the general emphasis placed on the ‘reflexive turn’, doing so also provides further context to the analysis presented in the following chapters of this book.]

Published: Oct 31, 2020

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