TY  - JOUR
ID  - discovery1359316
N2  - This paper is a reflexive analysis of the impact of researcher characteristics such as gender, age, ethnicity and status on doing police research in conflict zones. The reported research explored perceptions of frontline police officers working in left wing extremism affected areas in India. I suggest five working propositions emerge from this work. First, power is necessarily negotiated between the interviewer and the interviewee throughout the interview process. Second, whilst researcher gender and age do influence the research process, it is proposed that status dominates power negotiations in hierarchical organizations. Third, working in conflict zones places many restrictions on the researcher and the research process which impact upon research design and outcomes. Fourth, the microgeography of the interview site is relevant to how power negotiations are conducted. Finally, guidelines to resolve ethical dilemmas rarely provide solutions to tricky field research situations.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794112468474
JF  - Qualitative Research
KW  - police
KW  -  reflexivity
KW  -  power negotiations
KW  -  interviews
KW  -  gender
KW  -  status
KW  -  India
A1  - Belur, JS
TI  - Status, Gender and Geography: power negotiations in police research
EP  - 200
AV  - public
SP  - 184
VL  - 14
Y1  - 2014/04//
N1  - © The Author(s) 2013. 

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IS  - 2
ER  -