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- Title
Partisanship and positionality in qualitative research: Exploring the influences of the researcher's experiences of serious crime on the research process.
- Authors
Mendez, Melissa
- Abstract
Debates on positionality and partisanship in the research process are long-standing, complex and often highly contentious. Engaging with, and contributing to, both these key debates, this paper introduces the concept of victim-as-researcher. This draws from the author's experiences of undertaking research in Trinidad and Tobago with a group of offenders who had committed similar offences to that which the researcher was herself a victim. There is a paucity of literature which speaks to the experiences of victims of serious, violent crime who subsequently engage in qualitative research with offenders who have been convicted of offences similar to the ones experienced by the researcher and which, therefore, can elicit trauma whilst in the field and through analysis. This paper aims to extend the methodological literature on positionality and victimology by foregrounding the victim-as-researcher as an important category in reflexive sociological and criminological research.
- Subjects
RESEARCH protocols; CRIME; CRIMINALS; INTERVIEWING; QUALITATIVE research; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/14687941211016154