Criminal Law Fieldwork

Over at Concurring Opinions Max Miner has an interesting post about an old book, Burglars on the Job (by Richard T. Wright and Scott Decker).  Miner's post emphasizes the authors' methodology:

"Rather than interviewing incarcerated burglars, they set out to find active burglars in the community. They drew on a network of people who they believed were likely to know criminals. Interviewees would introduce them to burglars who in turn would introduce them to other burglars. This approach introduces a selection effect, of course, but avoids the obvious selection bias arising from only interviewing burglars in prison."

Given the research question and real world limitations, I concede that some form of selection effect is perhaps inevitable.  I am not sure, however, which injects more bias, only that different flavors of bias arise.

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