RT Article
T1 Researching professional discourses on violence
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 41
IS 3
SP 460
OP 471
A2 Gabe, Jonathan
A2 Denney, David
A2 Lee, Raymond M.
A2 Elston, Mary Ann
A2 O'Beirne, Maria
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/164011890X
AB This paper discusses the value of a multi-method approach for studying violence against professionals. It is based on a project currently conducted by the authors on the extent and impact of violence against three professions working in the community (General Practitioners, Probation Officers and Anglican Clergy). The paper starts by making some general points about the nature of our chosen occupations' professional discourses on violence and then discusses how quantitative and qualitative methods can be used to establish the extent to which the definitions of violence embedded in these discourses are meaningful for individual professionals. It is argued that both kinds of method are necessary to understand fully individual professionals' experiences of violence against them
K1 Gewaltdiskurs
K1 Bewährungshelfer
K1 Methodik