WHORING AROUND: Some Comments on Deviance Research in the Private Sector |
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| Authors: | JAMES A INCIARDI HARVEY A SIEGAL |
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| Institution: | James A. Inciardi is Professor and Director, Division of Criminal Justice, University of Delaware. He has extensive teaching, research field and clinical experiences in the areas of substance abuse and criminal justice. Dr. lnciardi was the director of the National Center for the Study of Acute Drug Reactions at the University of Miami School of Medicine, Vice President of Resource Planning Corporalion. and Associate Director of Research at the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission. He is currently editor of Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Journal and has published more than 70 books and articles in the areas of substance abuse. medicine, criminology, and criminal justice.;Harvey A. Siegal received his Ph. D. degree in 1974 from Yale University. Dr. Siegal has done most of his work in the area of ethnography, especially among deviate andlor socially marginal peoples. He workedfor a period of time in aprivate consuliing firm and is still active in the consulting area in the field of social problems research. Presently Dr. Siegal is Associate Professor in the Depariment of Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine and Associate Professor in ihe Department of Sociology and Anihropology at Wrighi State University in Dayton, Ohio. |
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| Abstract: | The trends are explored through which criminologists and other social scientists are being pushed out of academia and finding their way into the private sector, especially in the area of “deviance research.” In this research area, within the private sector, the work of thecontract researcher is discussed. The relationship between contract researcher and client is compared to that of prostitute and john, one in which many hopes and expectations are created, but where the encounter satisfies neither. The organization of private, contract research is considered and concern for the uses of these studies is raised. |
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