Qualitative Meta-Synthesis and the Study of Crime and Deviance: A Brief Introduction
Qualitative Meta-Synthesis and the Study of Crime and Deviance: A Brief Introduction
Heith Copes Andy Hochstetler a University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USAb Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USAHeith Copes is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research focuses on narrative sense making among those who engage in crime and deviance.Andy Hochstetler Professor is Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Iowa State University. Much of his work examines offender decision-making and outcomes by incorporating offenders’ self-appraisals, estimated prospects for conventional success, and environmental contexts into understanding and predicting recidivism and crime continuation. He also has written on aspects of drug use and misuse and on reentry from correctional sentences.