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Dobývání kriminality: Reflexe viktimizačního šetření v českých sociálně vyloučených lokalitách
Mining for crime: Reflection of victimization survey in Czech socially excluded localities

Author(s): Václav Walach, Petr Kupka, Ľubomír Lupták, Kateřina Tvrdá, Laco Toušek, Alica Brendzová, Ondřej Plachý, Klára Vanková, Tereza Dvořáková
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Victimology
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze - Filozofická fakulta, Vydavatelství
Keywords: socially excluded localities; victimization survey; victimization; quantitative research; interviewing;

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, we reflect on the victimization survey conducted as part of the research project BRIZOLIT (Security Risks in Socially Excluded Localities). Our main focus is on the methodological, epistemological and ethical problems which appeared during the survey among inhabitants ofthe so-called socially excluded localities in April — August 2016. More specifically, we will deal withthe issues related to the construction of our research object, interviewing strategies, as well as problems of validity of survey data with regard to the complex processes of victimization in socially excluded localities. In other words, we will try to answer three rather basic questions: „Who did weresearch? How did we do it? How did we record our findings?“ and hope to provide clues for futureresearchers facing similar problems.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 44-60
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech