In 'Interviewen in kwalitatief onderzoek' presenteert Marion Matthijssen een praktische aanpak om kwalitatieve data te verzamelen aan de hand van interviewen. Door haar ruime ervaring als trainer in kwalitatief onderzoek ziet zij de behoefte bij veel onderzoekers aan praktische handvatten om goed kwalitatief onderzoek uit te voeren. Het gaat dan zowel om het opstellen van een goede vragenlijst, het uitvoeren van interviews als de analyse van kwalitatief onderzoek. Zij besteedt in haar boek ve...

In januari 2002 verdween drugshandelaar Patrick van Dillenburg. Sindsdien is er niets meer van hem vernomen. Jarenlang keek de politie niet naar zijn verdwijning om, totdat na vijftien jaar, uit het niets, een undercoveroperatie tegen Ad K. begon. Die operatie ging door totdat de politie van hem een bekentenis had gekregen, afgelegd tegen een ‘crimineel’ die werd gespeeld door een politieagent. Ad werd in hoger beroep veroordeeld voor moord op Patrick van Dillenburg. Hij zou zijn lichaam ...

Er is discussie over politisering van veiligheid, toenemende sturing door het ministerie van Justitie en afkalving van het lokale gezag (burgemeester en officier van justitie). De Politiewet 2012 veronderstelt dat dit gezag niet zou worden aangetast. In Limburg is dit wel het geval.

Limburg is achtergesteld (qua sterkte) en wordt overvraagd door het ongelimiteerde aanbod van (inter)nationale criminaliteit, toenemende sturing, monitoring en de verantwoordingseisen van de minister van Justitie...

"Designing research is about making decisions to transform an idea into a plan that can provide answers to a research problem or question. Thinking about, and then making these decisions results in the research design – the plan that will be followed to conduct the research and answer the question. This text engages in a dialogue with the reader, providing a serious but accessible introduction to research design, for use as a guide when designing your own research or when reading the resear...

With a new chapter on the literature review, this accessible step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design is now in a thoroughly revised second edition. The prior edition's user-friendly features are augmented by a new companion website with worksheets keyed to each chapter. For each approach, the text presents a template for a research proposal and explains how to conceptualize and fill in every section.

Interdisciplinary research examples draw on current events a...

The only up-to-date, accessibly written short guide to community development, this third edition offers an invaluable and authoritative introduction. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture, it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance on how to do it. This is a key text for all students and practitioners working with communities.

It includes:* a broad overview of core themes, ...

Leta Hong Fincher's landmark book Leftover Women shone a light on the resurgence of gender inequality in 21st-century China. Ten years on, women in China continue to experience a dramatic rolling back of rights and gains in the increasingly patriarchal political climate of the Xi Jinping era.

Leftover Women explores the structural discrimination against women and the broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development that lie behind them. This updated edition includes a new pre...

This succinct and insightful guide to reflective practice is designed for students and practitioners across a range of professions in the human services - social work, healthcare and related fields. In seven compact chapters, it takes the reader through the main theories and principles of reflective practice, drawing on concepts and findings from across the associated literature. Its clear and careful integration of both the 'thinking' and 'doing' elements of the complex and often challenging...

'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah Dawson

We have to keep saying it because they keep doing it.

Do colleagues roll their eyes in a meeting when you use words like sexism or racism? Do you refuse to laugh at jokes that aren't funny? Have you been called divisive for pointing out a division? Then you are a feminist killjoy, and this handbook is for you.

The term killjoy has bee...

Delving into the real issues of policing, and fully updated to cover recent changes in the field, this is the introduction to your Police Studies course.