Heroin use in England : an (auto)ethnographic study of drug addiction /
This case study reports on the methodological complexities of doing ethnographic research on heroin addiction when the researcher is an ex-heroin addict himself. The case provides an account of the difficulties of accessing and researching criminal/deviant populations, demonstrating some of the many...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[London] :
SAGE,
2014.
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| Series: | SAGE research methods. Cases.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This case study reports on the methodological complexities of doing ethnographic research on heroin addiction when the researcher is an ex-heroin addict himself. The case provides an account of the difficulties of accessing and researching criminal/deviant populations, demonstrating some of the many potentials and problems to be found in adopting (auto)ethnographic techniques in the process. Ultimately, it is shown here that the links between the researcher's 'self' (past or present) and the subject studied can be usefully employed in social research to reveal new and illuminating ways of understanding research topics. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781473951389 (ebook) : |
