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Subject
Socio-Legal Research: Theory and Practice and Thesis Seminar
General details of the subject
- Mode
- Face-to-face degree course
- Language
- English
Teaching staff
| Name | Institution | Category | Doctor | Teaching profile | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENGOETXEA CABALLERO, JOSE RAMON | University of the Basque Country | Profesorado Catedratico De Universidad | Doctor | Bilingual | Philosophy of Law | joxerramon.bengoetxea@ehu.eus |
| AMIETTA , SANTIAGO | Keele University | Otros | ||||
| FRERICHS , SABINE | Vienna University of Economics and Business | Otros | ||||
| ROACH ANLEU, SHARYN | Flinders University | Profesorado Titular De Universidad | Doctor | Filosofía del Derecho, Moral y Política |
Competencies
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Conocimiento de los médodos cualitativos y cuantitativos utilizados en la investigación de la sociología jurídica | 40.0 % |
| Aplicación de estos métodos a un proyecto de investigación propio y original | 40.0 % |
| Consideración de la problemática ética que implica la investigación así como de su financiación | 10.0 % |
| Comprensión crítica de la relación entre investigación, poder y construcción social del conocimiento en una investigación concreta. | 10.0 % |
Study types
| Type | Face-to-face hours | Non face-to-face hours | Total hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture-based | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Seminar | 60 | 105 | 165 |
Training activities
| Name | Hours | Percentage of classroom teaching |
|---|---|---|
| Case analysis | 40.0 | 100 % |
| Discussion | 10.0 | 100 % |
| Text analysis | 40.0 | 100 % |
| Written discussion of a topic | 85.0 | 20 % |
Assessment systems
| Name | Minimum weighting | Maximum weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance and participation | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
| Evaluation by means of the presentation of projects | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
| Written examination | 50.0 % | 50.0 % |
Temary
The Process and design of Socio-Legal ResearchSampling, recruitment and ethics
In-depth interviewing and narrative
Focus Groups and Case Studies
Bibliography
In-depth bibliography
Curtis, Ric (2010). Getting good data from people that do bad things: effective methods and techniques for conducting research with hard-to-reach and hidden populations, in: Offenders on offending: learning about crime from criminals, edited by Wim Bernasco. Willan, 2010, Chapter 9, pp. 141-158Sanders, Teela (2008). "Researching men who buy sex". In: Paying for pleasure: men who buy sex. Willan, chapter 2, pp. 13-37
Kagan, Robert A. (1995). What socio-legal scholars should do when there is too much law to study?, in: Socio-legal studies in context: the Oxford Centre past and present, edited by Denis J. Galligan. Oxford, Basic Blackwell, pp. 140-148
Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin (2006). Narratives of the death sentence: toward a theory of legal narrativity, in: Consciousness and ideology, edited by Patricia Ewick, Ashgate, (The International Library of Essays in Law and Society), chapter 13, pp. 385-412
Wallace Foundation (2011). ¿Workbook E : conducting in-depth interviews¿. http://www.wallacefoundation.org/KnowledgeCenter/KnowledgeTopics/CurrentAreasof Focus/Out-Of-SchoolLearning/Documents/Workbook-E-Indepth-Interviews.pdf
Travers, Max (2012). "The vulnerable offender", in: The sentencing of children: professional work and perspectives, New Academia Publishing, chapter 7, pp. 121-145
Journals
REVISTA Melville, A. and Hunter, R. (2001) As everybody knows countering myths of gender bias in family law Griffith Law Review, 10, 124REVISTA Banakar, Reza (2000). "Reflections on the methodological issues of the sociology of law". Journal of Law and Society, 27, 2, pp. 273-295
REVISTA Cotterrell, Roger (1998). Why must legal ideas be interpreted sociologically". Journal of Law and Society, 25, 2, pp. 171-192
REVISTA Tracy, Sarah J. (2010). "Qualitative quality:eight -big-tent- criteria for excellent qualitative research". Qualitative Inquiry, 16, 10, pp. 837-851
REVISTA Kate Warner, Julia Davis, Maggie Walter, Rebecca Bradfield & Rachel Vermey (2011) Public judgement on sentencing: final results from the Tasmanian Jury sentencing study. Trends & Issues in crime and criminal justice, nº 407
REVISTA Bosworth, Mary (2011) "Researching trafficked women: on institutional resistance and the limits to feminist reflexivity", Qualitative Inquiry, volume 17 number 9, pp. 769-779
Foddy, William (1993) "An initial statement of the problem", in: Constructing questions for interviews and
REVISTA Travers, M. (2010) `Welfare, Punishment or Something Else" Sentencing Minor Offences Committed by Young People In Tasmania and Victoria Current Issues in Criminal Justice. 22 (1): 99-116. .