The Arrest Experiments: A Feminist Critique
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Vol. 83, No. 1 (Spring 1992)
10 Pages Posted: 2 Aug 2012
Date Written: April 1, 1992
Abstract
Quantitative research has elicited a good deal of criticism from feminists. Quantitative methods are considered suspect because they place a greater value on "objective" and quantifiable information than on other sources of knowledge; because they assume a separation-indeed, a distance-between the researcher and the object of study; and because they isolate the factors under study from their socio-economic and historical context. In the domestic violence field, moreover, survey research is greeted with particular mistrust because of early studies which were perceived as both insensitive in their design and biased in their results.
Keywords: Feminism, arrests, quantative research, domestic violence
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