Structured Interviews

Structured Interviews

1. Practical

   • Cheap and Quick
   • Easily quantified
   • Training = easy
   • Good response rate
   • Inflexible
   • Advance knowledge
   • Snapshots
   • Restricted/elaborated code
     • Pamela: Slang
       • Cannot be clarified
   • Safety
     • Davies: women prisoners
   • Access
     • Domestic Violence

2. Ethical

   • No obligation to asnwer
   • Routine questions
   • Pressure to answer
   • Anonimty
     • Brookman: Murderers
   • Vulnerable groups

3. Theoretical

   • Hypothesis testing
   • Reliability
     • Standardised measuring instrument
     • BCS: standarised Qs & interviewer training
   • Representativeness
     • Undermined by similar people responding
     • Large-scale
     • Sampling
       • Unconvicted criminals
         • Snowball samples
     • BCS: 47,000 w/ 75% response
   • Validity
     • Close-ended questions
     • No clarification
     • Lies/exaggeration
       • Little rapport
     • Imposition Problem
       • Graham: conceals patriarchy & female experience
     • Authority
       • Adams: Dressed down
   • Detachment
     • Oakley: science/interest
     • No meanings