Nigel G Fielding
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118103 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nigel G Fielding |
| NOMBRES | Nigel G |
| APELLIDO | Fielding |
| FIRMA | FIELDING N G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Surrey |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Critical Qualitative Research and Impact in the Public Sphere
Critical qualitative research is at a troubled juncture. Web 2.0 has stimulated an appetite for Big Data across the policy community that maps to quantitative research, less to qualitative work. Evidence-based policy places qualitative research at the bottom of the scientific credibility scale. A lurch to the hard Right in the political world marginalizes critical research and sets back the indigenous and alienated, with whom many qualitative res…
New Data and Old Dilemmas
The pace of change occasioned by the affordances of new technologies is accelerating. The last 5 years have seen developments following in the train of Web 2.0 applications that are remarkable even set against the pace of change since the advent of the Internet. Yet it is important to be realistic about the depth of change. While there is a widespread view that the prevailing trope of our contemporary times in the Western democracies is that of n…
Professionalizing the Police
The police have long struggled with the concept of professionalism. The Victorians veered from regarding police as servants to sanctifying policing as a special calling, while the supposed Golden Age of Policing was riven by divisions of class as sharp as those of the social diversity that poses one of contemporary policing’s harshest tests. Police training has reflected these ambiguities and uncertainties. The ground its curriculum covers, pedag…
Mission and Challenges
The chapter positions professionalism in policing and police training in the context of the contemporary police mission. It seeks to define and measure police work and the police mission by examining and assessing current policing strategies, the operation of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act in relation to suspect populations, and the role that the police play in responding to racism, hate crime, and terrorism. Adopting the idea of ruptured c…
Patterns of injury on duty and perceptions of support amongst serving police personnel in England and Wales
This article reports the findings of a large-scale survey (N = 10,897) which sought to reveal patterns of injury on duty (IoD) and perceptions of organisational and other support amongst serving police personnel in England and Wales. We found that IoD is a multi-faceted issue incorporating wide-ranging physical and psychological injuries and illnesses. We also found that, by their own testimony, IoD is not experienced equally amongst police perso…
Challenging Others' Challenges
Research funders throw down a gauntlet about the "grand challenges" of our time, like a cure for cancer, or eradicating poverty. But "normal science" is the practice of the particular. Our knowledge comes in glimpses, not the arc of the floodlight. This article argues that if we want to build a cumulative knowledge of the social, we need to synthesize, not fragment, and to talk across borders, not put up fences. Critical qualitative inquiry can b…
Qualitative Research and Our Digital Futures
Those who lived through the 1960s recall a time of rapid social change and political turmoil. Commentators discern parallels with present times, citing the Arab Spring, the West's fiscal crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Social science saw its own upheavals in the 1960s-the emergence of Grounded Theory, postmodernism, and perspectives based on the counter-culture, feminism, and minorities. This article sees contemporary equivalents in the…
Lay people in court
The article considers the effect of criminal trial procedures on the experience at court of victims, witnesses and defendants. Trials for offences involving physical violence were observed, and interviews conducted with those involved. The article highlights communication problems lay people encountered relating to courtroom conventions, discusses alternative procedures granting more room for narrative testimony, and draws parallels between such …
Judges and Their Work
The article discusses judicial activism in the light of research into the attitudes of English judges, and a comparator group of US judges, towards judicial selection, judicial training and sentencing practice. Noting commonalities and shared perspectives, it is argued that the findings indicate enduring features of occupational culture that originate in relations within the legal workgroup and the practical craft of judging. Against the context …
Identity and Intellectual Work
Of Bridges and Limbs
Going out on a Limb
The article argues that 'moderate postmodernism' can in certain respects be reconciled with a methodological practice, triangulation, that is based on mainstream methodological foundations. A connection is made between moderate postmodernism and triangulation's orientation to multiple methods. The evolution of social science approaches to triangulation towards a position less concerned with convergent validation and more concerned with using mult…
Grid Computing and Qualitative Social Science
Qualitative research is increasingly important in policy-related and applied work, as well as in academic work. Grid and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies promise significant potential returns for qualitative researchers. Tagged cyber-research in the United States and e-social science in the United Kingdom (and e-research in general), the application of HPC technologies can enhance the scope, depth, and rigor of qualitative inquiry by…
Concepts and Theory in Community Policing
Community policing (CP) has an enduring appeal, but there are many constructions of its meaning, each informed by different philosophical underpinnings. The article examines approaches to CP in which the police are close to the public, know their concerns from regular contacts, and act on them in accord with the community's wishes. It assesses the prospects of such approaches, drawing on research evaluating programmes designed in line with such p…
Computers and Qualitative Research
Drawing on a range of sources, this article examines patterns in the adoption, appropriation, and use of qualitative analysis software (or CAQDAS—Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) in the United Kingdom. It is argued that the take-up and use of CAQDAS, representations of computerassisted as opposed to manual analysis, and certainty about the utility of CAQDAS, are related to user generation. The changing composition of the user…
New Patterns in the Adoption and Use of Qualitative Software
The article examines patterns in adopting and using qualitative data analysis software. It draws on research on users' experiences and analyses of participation in software training courses to suggest the emergence of a new pattern of adoption and use. Qualitative software (generically, "CAQDAS") is often seen as a new, distinctive kind of analytic procedure. This both confuses a technical resource with an analytic approach and assigns undue cohe…
Padrões de adoção, modos de uso e representações sobre tecnologia
Esse artigo coloca em debate as transformações ocorridas no uso do programa assistente para análise qualitativa de dados (CAQDAS) desde a década de setenta abordando, especialmente a utilização diferenciada dessa tecnologia por parte de diferentes tipos e gerações de usuários
The Economic Dimensions of Crime
Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research
Introduction Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis Why Use Computers in Qualitative Research? Managing Data in CAQDAS Analytic Pathologies Manipulating Coding Categories Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research New Directions The Evolution of Qualitative Data Analysis
Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity
Qualitative data offer rich insights into the social world, whether alone or in tandem with statistical analysis. However, qualitative data are costly to collect and analyse. Moreover, it is a commonplace that only a portion of the data so labouriously collected is the subject of final analysis and publication. Secondary analysis is a well-established method in quantitative research and is raising its profile in application to qualitative data. I…
The norm and the text
Qualitative methods have lately enjoyed enhanced legitimacy and are increasingly used in academic and applied social research. Yet the field is marked by controversy about virtually every key tenet of qualitative inquiry, from matters of epistemology to purely practical matters of relations with research subjects. Not only is the practice of qualitative research hotly contested, consensus is lacking about the purpose of qualitative research and w…
Applications of Computer Software in the Sociological Analysis of Qualitative Data
Utilisations de logiciels dans l'analyse sociologique des données qualitatives. Cet article décrit l'utilisation de l'analyse informatique de données qualitatives (CAQDAS en anglais) en sociologie. II fournit un historique de la CAQDAS. montre la relation entre des types de logiciel et des approches différentes de l'analyse sociologique des données qualitatives. II examine la place de la CAQDAS dans l'environnement de recherche. et il considère l…
Diffusion of a Methodological Innovation
The Police and Social Conflict
The Police and Social Conflict
Policing and social conflict a golden age of policing? paramilitary policing and public order civil policing and order maintenance managing social conflict police accountability and the politics of social conflict tomorrow's headlines
Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity
Qualitative data offer rich insights into the social world, whether alone or in tandem with statistical analysis. However, qualitative data are costly to collect and analyse. Moreover, it is a commonplace that only a portion of the data so labouriously collected is the subject of final analysis and publication. Secondary analysis is a well-established method in quantitative research and is raising its profile in application to qualitative data. I…
Computers and Qualitative Research
Drawing on a range of sources, this article examines patterns in the adoption, appropriation, and use of qualitative analysis software (or CAQDAS—Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) in the United Kingdom. It is argued that the take-up and use of CAQDAS, representations of computerassisted as opposed to manual analysis, and certainty about the utility of CAQDAS, are related to user generation. The changing composition of the user…
Judges and Their Work
The article discusses judicial activism in the light of research into the attitudes of English judges, and a comparator group of US judges, towards judicial selection, judicial training and sentencing practice. Noting commonalities and shared perspectives, it is argued that the findings indicate enduring features of occupational culture that originate in relations within the legal workgroup and the practical craft of judging. Against the context …
Lay people in court
The article considers the effect of criminal trial procedures on the experience at court of victims, witnesses and defendants. Trials for offences involving physical violence were observed, and interviews conducted with those involved. The article highlights communication problems lay people encountered relating to courtroom conventions, discusses alternative procedures granting more room for narrative testimony, and draws parallels between such …
Critical Qualitative Research and Impact in the Public Sphere
Critical qualitative research is at a troubled juncture. Web 2.0 has stimulated an appetite for Big Data across the policy community that maps to quantitative research, less to qualitative work. Evidence-based policy places qualitative research at the bottom of the scientific credibility scale. A lurch to the hard Right in the political world marginalizes critical research and sets back the indigenous and alienated, with whom many qualitative res…
Qualitative Research and Our Digital Futures
Those who lived through the 1960s recall a time of rapid social change and political turmoil. Commentators discern parallels with present times, citing the Arab Spring, the West's fiscal crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Social science saw its own upheavals in the 1960s-the emergence of Grounded Theory, postmodernism, and perspectives based on the counter-culture, feminism, and minorities. This article sees contemporary equivalents in the…
New Patterns in the Adoption and Use of Qualitative Software
The article examines patterns in adopting and using qualitative data analysis software. It draws on research on users' experiences and analyses of participation in software training courses to suggest the emergence of a new pattern of adoption and use. Qualitative software (generically, "CAQDAS") is often seen as a new, distinctive kind of analytic procedure. This both confuses a technical resource with an analytic approach and assigns undue cohe…
Grid Computing and Qualitative Social Science
Qualitative research is increasingly important in policy-related and applied work, as well as in academic work. Grid and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies promise significant potential returns for qualitative researchers. Tagged cyber-research in the United States and e-social science in the United Kingdom (and e-research in general), the application of HPC technologies can enhance the scope, depth, and rigor of qualitative inquiry by…
Padrões de adoção, modos de uso e representações sobre tecnologia
Esse artigo coloca em debate as transformações ocorridas no uso do programa assistente para análise qualitativa de dados (CAQDAS) desde a década de setenta abordando, especialmente a utilização diferenciada dessa tecnologia por parte de diferentes tipos e gerações de usuários
Mediating the Message
Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research
Introduction Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis Why Use Computers in Qualitative Research? Managing Data in CAQDAS Analytic Pathologies Manipulating Coding Categories Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research New Directions The Evolution of Qualitative Data Analysis
Police Attitudes to Crime and Punishment
Police attitudes concerning crime and punishment are conventionally seen as harsh and conservative. However, social representation theory argues that ostensibly unified belief systems contain contrary themes and that these ‘dilemmatic’ aspects are vital to the application of attitudes to action. We examine this argument in relation to data from a longitudinal study of police socialization, and discuss implications for police training
New Data and Old Dilemmas
The pace of change occasioned by the affordances of new technologies is accelerating. The last 5 years have seen developments following in the train of Web 2.0 applications that are remarkable even set against the pace of change since the advent of the Internet. Yet it is important to be realistic about the depth of change. While there is a widespread view that the prevailing trope of our contemporary times in the Western democracies is that of n…
Patterns of injury on duty and perceptions of support amongst serving police personnel in England and Wales
This article reports the findings of a large-scale survey (N = 10,897) which sought to reveal patterns of injury on duty (IoD) and perceptions of organisational and other support amongst serving police personnel in England and Wales. We found that IoD is a multi-faceted issue incorporating wide-ranging physical and psychological injuries and illnesses. We also found that, by their own testimony, IoD is not experienced equally amongst police perso…
Challenging Others' Challenges
Research funders throw down a gauntlet about the "grand challenges" of our time, like a cure for cancer, or eradicating poverty. But "normal science" is the practice of the particular. Our knowledge comes in glimpses, not the arc of the floodlight. This article argues that if we want to build a cumulative knowledge of the social, we need to synthesize, not fragment, and to talk across borders, not put up fences. Critical qualitative inquiry can b…
Going out on a Limb
The article argues that 'moderate postmodernism' can in certain respects be reconciled with a methodological practice, triangulation, that is based on mainstream methodological foundations. A connection is made between moderate postmodernism and triangulation's orientation to multiple methods. The evolution of social science approaches to triangulation towards a position less concerned with convergent validation and more concerned with using mult…
Diffusion of a Methodological Innovation
Interviewing Child Victims
The article examines the conduct of videotaped interviews between suspected victims of child sexual abuse and police officers and social workers investigating the allegation. It assesses the present conduct of the interviews and the place of children's testimony in contemporary law, and is illustrated by several extracts from transcripts of interviews with suspected child victims. In a field dominated by psychological approaches to interview desi…
Joining Forces
Evaluating the role of training in police socialization
Socialization into an occupation proceeds through both formal and informal channels. In the case of the police, the formal agency is the training school, and the informal process results from assignment to operational service. In the UK, the latter begins early in the training period and occupies the bulk of the 2 years that a Police Constable is on “probation.” It is important to know how police training and the experience of policing affect the…
Managing the Police
Being Used by the Police
Journal Article BEING USED BY THE POLICE Get access NIGEL G. FIELDING NIGEL G. FIELDING *Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Winter 1987, Pages 64–69, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047654 Published: 01 January 1987
Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research
Joining Forces
This study in occupational socialization should be of interest to organizational sociologists, criminologists and police specialists. Based on a five-year study it provides a detailed picture of police training
Joining Forces
Mediating the Message
Police Attitudes to Crime and Punishment
Police attitudes concerning crime and punishment are conventionally seen as harsh and conservative. However, social representation theory argues that ostensibly unified belief systems contain contrary themes and that these ‘dilemmatic’ aspects are vital to the application of attitudes to action. We examine this argument in relation to data from a longitudinal study of police socialization, and discuss implications for police training
The Police and Social Conflict
Policing and social conflict a golden age of policing? paramilitary policing and public order civil policing and order maintenance managing social conflict police accountability and the politics of social conflict tomorrow's headlines
Interviewing Child Victims
The article examines the conduct of videotaped interviews between suspected victims of child sexual abuse and police officers and social workers investigating the allegation. It assesses the present conduct of the interviews and the place of children's testimony in contemporary law, and is illustrated by several extracts from transcripts of interviews with suspected child victims. In a field dominated by psychological approaches to interview desi…
The Police and Social Conflict
Diffusion of a Methodological Innovation
Applications of Computer Software in the Sociological Analysis of Qualitative Data
Utilisations de logiciels dans l'analyse sociologique des données qualitatives. Cet article décrit l'utilisation de l'analyse informatique de données qualitatives (CAQDAS en anglais) en sociologie. II fournit un historique de la CAQDAS. montre la relation entre des types de logiciel et des approches différentes de l'analyse sociologique des données qualitatives. II examine la place de la CAQDAS dans l'environnement de recherche. et il considère l…
The norm and the text
Qualitative methods have lately enjoyed enhanced legitimacy and are increasingly used in academic and applied social research. Yet the field is marked by controversy about virtually every key tenet of qualitative inquiry, from matters of epistemology to purely practical matters of relations with research subjects. Not only is the practice of qualitative research hotly contested, consensus is lacking about the purpose of qualitative research and w…
The Economic Dimensions of Crime
Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research
Introduction Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research Approaches to Qualitative Data Analysis Why Use Computers in Qualitative Research? Managing Data in CAQDAS Analytic Pathologies Manipulating Coding Categories Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research New Directions The Evolution of Qualitative Data Analysis
Resistance and Adaptation to Criminal Identity
Qualitative data offer rich insights into the social world, whether alone or in tandem with statistical analysis. However, qualitative data are costly to collect and analyse. Moreover, it is a commonplace that only a portion of the data so labouriously collected is the subject of final analysis and publication. Secondary analysis is a well-established method in quantitative research and is raising its profile in application to qualitative data. I…
Padrões de adoção, modos de uso e representações sobre tecnologia
Esse artigo coloca em debate as transformações ocorridas no uso do programa assistente para análise qualitativa de dados (CAQDAS) desde a década de setenta abordando, especialmente a utilização diferenciada dessa tecnologia por parte de diferentes tipos e gerações de usuários
New Patterns in the Adoption and Use of Qualitative Software
The article examines patterns in adopting and using qualitative data analysis software. It draws on research on users' experiences and analyses of participation in software training courses to suggest the emergence of a new pattern of adoption and use. Qualitative software (generically, "CAQDAS") is often seen as a new, distinctive kind of analytic procedure. This both confuses a technical resource with an analytic approach and assigns undue cohe…
Computers and Qualitative Research
Drawing on a range of sources, this article examines patterns in the adoption, appropriation, and use of qualitative analysis software (or CAQDAS—Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software) in the United Kingdom. It is argued that the take-up and use of CAQDAS, representations of computerassisted as opposed to manual analysis, and certainty about the utility of CAQDAS, are related to user generation. The changing composition of the user…
Concepts and Theory in Community Policing
Community policing (CP) has an enduring appeal, but there are many constructions of its meaning, each informed by different philosophical underpinnings. The article examines approaches to CP in which the police are close to the public, know their concerns from regular contacts, and act on them in accord with the community's wishes. It assesses the prospects of such approaches, drawing on research evaluating programmes designed in line with such p…
Grid Computing and Qualitative Social Science
Qualitative research is increasingly important in policy-related and applied work, as well as in academic work. Grid and high-performance computing (HPC) technologies promise significant potential returns for qualitative researchers. Tagged cyber-research in the United States and e-social science in the United Kingdom (and e-research in general), the application of HPC technologies can enhance the scope, depth, and rigor of qualitative inquiry by…
Of Bridges and Limbs
Going out on a Limb
The article argues that 'moderate postmodernism' can in certain respects be reconciled with a methodological practice, triangulation, that is based on mainstream methodological foundations. A connection is made between moderate postmodernism and triangulation's orientation to multiple methods. The evolution of social science approaches to triangulation towards a position less concerned with convergent validation and more concerned with using mult…
Identity and Intellectual Work
Sociology (27 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Social science (15 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Criminology (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Qualitative research (9 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras)