Lamia Irfan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lamia Irfan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lamia |
| FAMILY NAME | Irfan |
| SIGNATURE | IRFAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9977-5986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The primacy of ontology
This paper suggests philosophical foundations for mixed methods research based on the philosophy of critical realism. In particular, it suggests that the critical realist idea of the primacy of ontology helps bridge the apparent paradigmatic gap between qualitative and quantitative research. It illustrates this foundational idea by showing why and how a multi-disciplinary team used a mixed methods approach to understand the significance of religi…
Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews
Building on the insights of the late Roy Bhaskar and the late Roger Matthews, as well as some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces and delineates some core intellectual contours of a Critical Realist Criminology (CRC) based on the principles of: \n \nThe ‘emergent,’ stratified ontology of crime and of the offender; \n \nthe full critical realist account of the dialectics of being and becoming, including the sp…
La prison comme expérience liminale du changement religieux
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les prisons européennes font face à une augmentation significative de personnes détenues de confession musulmane au point que dans certains établissements, celles-ci représentent parfois plus de la moitié des prisonniers. Si différentes études se sont penchées sur le rôle de la religion dans l’expérience carcérale et que nombre d’entre elles examinent l’islam et les personnes musulmanes en prison, on constate la pré…
Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research
Critical realist thought has theorised convincingly that epistemic relativism is constellationally embedded in ontological realism which in turn necessitates judgemental rationality. In social science, judgemental rationality involves acting upon plausible decisions about competing points of view. However, the tools for doing this are, as yet, under-articulated. This paper addresses this absence by articulating triangulation and depth-reflexivity…
Prison as a Site of Intense Religious Change
Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons in England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people born outside Islam and many born-Muslims believe in and practise Islam for the first time. In order to map this experience of intense religious change in prison, the paper articulates an original typolog…
Living Islam in Prison
Addressing a significant gap in the knowledge of female Muslim prisoners' religiosity, this paper describes and explains the gendered impact of incarceration on the religiosity of Muslim female and male offenders. Based on quantitative and qualitative data collected in ten prisons, including a male and female prison in England and a male and female prison in Switzerland, the authors show that prison tends to intensify the religiosity of Muslim me…
The ontology of the Muslim male offender
This article proposes a theoretical framework for thinking systematically about Muslim males’ involvement in criminality, derived from the philosophy of critical realism. This theoretical framework is deployed to explore primary data from life story interviews with 17 Muslim male offenders in a way that explains the role of structural and cultural factors, as well as individual agency, in participants’ involvement in crime at a range of ‘emergent…
Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research
Critical realist thought has theorised convincingly that epistemic relativism is constellationally embedded in ontological realism which in turn necessitates judgemental rationality. In social science, judgemental rationality involves acting upon plausible decisions about competing points of view. However, the tools for doing this are, as yet, under-articulated. This paper addresses this absence by articulating triangulation and depth-reflexivity…
Prison as a Site of Intense Religious Change
Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons in England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people born outside Islam and many born-Muslims believe in and practise Islam for the first time. In order to map this experience of intense religious change in prison, the paper articulates an original typolog…
Living Islam in Prison
Addressing a significant gap in the knowledge of female Muslim prisoners' religiosity, this paper describes and explains the gendered impact of incarceration on the religiosity of Muslim female and male offenders. Based on quantitative and qualitative data collected in ten prisons, including a male and female prison in England and a male and female prison in Switzerland, the authors show that prison tends to intensify the religiosity of Muslim me…
The ontology of the Muslim male offender
This article proposes a theoretical framework for thinking systematically about Muslim males’ involvement in criminality, derived from the philosophy of critical realism. This theoretical framework is deployed to explore primary data from life story interviews with 17 Muslim male offenders in a way that explains the role of structural and cultural factors, as well as individual agency, in participants’ involvement in crime at a range of ‘emergent…
Doing ‘judgemental rationality’ in empirical research
Critical realist thought has theorised convincingly that epistemic relativism is constellationally embedded in ontological realism which in turn necessitates judgemental rationality. In social science, judgemental rationality involves acting upon plausible decisions about competing points of view. However, the tools for doing this are, as yet, under-articulated. This paper addresses this absence by articulating triangulation and depth-reflexivity…
Prison as a Site of Intense Religious Change
Based on the findings of mixed-methods research conducted with 279 Muslim prisoners in 10 prisons in England, Switzerland and France, this paper argues that contemporary European prisons are sites of intense religious change, in which many people born outside Islam and many born-Muslims believe in and practise Islam for the first time. In order to map this experience of intense religious change in prison, the paper articulates an original typolog…
Living Islam in Prison
Addressing a significant gap in the knowledge of female Muslim prisoners' religiosity, this paper describes and explains the gendered impact of incarceration on the religiosity of Muslim female and male offenders. Based on quantitative and qualitative data collected in ten prisons, including a male and female prison in England and a male and female prison in Switzerland, the authors show that prison tends to intensify the religiosity of Muslim me…
The primacy of ontology
This paper suggests philosophical foundations for mixed methods research based on the philosophy of critical realism. In particular, it suggests that the critical realist idea of the primacy of ontology helps bridge the apparent paradigmatic gap between qualitative and quantitative research. It illustrates this foundational idea by showing why and how a multi-disciplinary team used a mixed methods approach to understand the significance of religi…
Building on the shoulders of Bhaskar and Matthews
Building on the insights of the late Roy Bhaskar and the late Roger Matthews, as well as some recent developments in ultra-realist criminology, this article introduces and delineates some core intellectual contours of a Critical Realist Criminology (CRC) based on the principles of: \n \nThe ‘emergent,’ stratified ontology of crime and of the offender; \n \nthe full critical realist account of the dialectics of being and becoming, including the sp…
La prison comme expérience liminale du changement religieux
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les prisons européennes font face à une augmentation significative de personnes détenues de confession musulmane au point que dans certains établissements, celles-ci représentent parfois plus de la moitié des prisonniers. Si différentes études se sont penchées sur le rôle de la religion dans l’expérience carcérale et que nombre d’entre elles examinent l’islam et les personnes musulmanes en prison, on constate la pré…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Realism (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)