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Pathways from Heroin Addiction: Recovery Without Treatment

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Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives

Shadd Maruna
TL;DR: Maruna as discussed by the authors argues that to truly understand offenders, we must understand the stories that they tell - and that in turn this story-making process has the capacity to transform lives, and provides a fascinating narrative analysis of the lives of repeat offenders who, by all statistical measures, should have continued on the criminal path but instead have created lives of productivity and purpose.
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Targeted sampling: options for the study of hidden populations

TL;DR: Targeted sampling provides a cohesive set of research methods that can help researchers study health or social problems that exist among populations that are difficult to reach because of their attributed social stigma, legal status, and consequent lack of visibility.
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Understanding Desistance from Crime

TL;DR: The study of desistance from crime is hampered by definitional, measurement, and theoretical incoherence as mentioned in this paper, and a unifying framework can distinguish termination of offending from the process of desistanc...
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Putting the ‘theory’ back into grounded theory: guidelines for grounded theory studies in information systems

TL;DR: These guidelines are based on a framework for theorizing in grounded theory studies that focuses on conceptualization and theory scope and it is hoped that the guidelines will help to raise the quality and aspirations of grounded theory Studies in information systems.

Grounded theory as an emergent method.

TL;DR: Grounded theory is predicated on an emergent logic and starts with a systematic, inductive approach to collecting and analyzing data to develop theoretical analyses, which includes checking emergent categories that emerge from successive levels of analysis through hypothetical and deductive reasoning.
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