2008
DOI: 10.1177/1468794107085297
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Focus groups and the study of violence

Abstract: The article examines the focus group method as a tool to study violence in youth residential care based on an empirical study of 38 young people in two Finnish reform schools. The key issue here is to reflect upon the processes of knowledge production as we trace the ways in which the institutional and situational context and the very form of focus groups affect the ways of talking about violence. Special attention is given to strong and weak themes in the focus group interviews.

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“…In the present study, however, the ranking is not the only finding. On the contrary, besides the actual ranking of the drugs, data in this study include the interactions and the reflections upon the differences between the drugs (Pö sö , Honkatukia, & Nyqvist, 2008). The interaction in the focus groups is well suited to gaining knowledge about how negotiations between participants and what arguments are legitimate (Demant, 2008).…”
Section: Methods and Data Materialsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…In the present study, however, the ranking is not the only finding. On the contrary, besides the actual ranking of the drugs, data in this study include the interactions and the reflections upon the differences between the drugs (Pö sö , Honkatukia, & Nyqvist, 2008). The interaction in the focus groups is well suited to gaining knowledge about how negotiations between participants and what arguments are legitimate (Demant, 2008).…”
Section: Methods and Data Materialsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…The goal of a focus group is "to collect data that is of interest to the researcher -typically to find the range of opinions of people across several groups" (Krueger and Casey 2009: 7). However, in focus group research, content analysis has been dominant while interactional meaning has long been neglected (e.g., Peek and Fothergill 2009;Pösö et al 2008).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The second substudy included also a study of violence experienced by the young people (Honkatukia et al, 2006(Honkatukia et al, , 2007Pösö et al, 2008).…”
Section: Notementioning
confidence: 99%