Temporal and Social Contexts of Heroin-Using Populations An Illustration of the Snowball Sampling Technique

Kaplan, Charles D.; Korf, D.J.; Sterk, Claire E.

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“…Using a snow-ball technique [31], an initial group of Saudi mothers (n=8) were contacted and asked to provide the contact information of other Saudi mothers with young children, and the process continued. In addition, Saudi clubs in the US helped relay an online message via Facebook™ for contacting mothers with young children.…”

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Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Almarhoon¹,

Ramsay²,

Fletcher³

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J Food Nutri Diete

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Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Almarhoon¹,

Ramsay²,

Fletcher³

et al. 2016

J Food Nutri Diete

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“…This sampling method is commonly used to access otherwise "impenetrable social groupings" (Atkinson and Flint 2001). It has been used in researching sensitive issues involving prostitutes (McNamara 1994), drug users (Avico, et al 1998;Kaplan et al 1987), and pickpockets (Inciardi 1977).…”

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Culture Conflict Between Moonshiners and the Government: An Explanation of Jury Nullification and Nolle Prosequi in Illicit Alcohol Offenses in Rural Communities

Green¹

2016

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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The distillation, distribution and use of illicit alcohol have historically been widely accepted in many rural communities. A conflict has long existed between this community acceptance and the law. As a result, agents attempting to enforce alcohol violations pertaining to moonshine have historically been frustrated by their inability to gather posses, find witnesses and win convictions in court. This article uses data collected from qualitative interviews to examine how this social acceptance of illegal behavior has contributed to this frustration and demonstrates how cultural conflict explains why prosecutors decline to prosecute defendants for criminal offenses, an act commonly referred to in legal circles as nolle prosequi decisions, as well as examples of jury nullification.

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“…SSM is sometimes referred to as a "second best" methodology. A common claim is that is results in problems with representativity since it is not random; as a result, some researchers have noted that most snowball samples are biased and cannot be generalized (Kaplan, Korf, & Sterk, 1987). Despite this significant limitation, Cohen and Arieli (2011) claimed that it is possible to increase the representativity of SSM by sufficient planning of the sampling process and goals, initiating parallel snowball networks and using quota sampling.…”

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Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

Wickman

2015

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People with disabilities seldom get a chance to voice their opinions on their sport experiences. A deeper understanding of the context-related experiences of sport is a prerequisite for teachers and leaders to be able to provide adequate, inclusive and meaningful activities. The aim of this qualitative case study was to examine how young people with disabilities made sense of sport, within both the compulsory school system and the voluntary sports movement. The study involved 10 young adults (aged 16 to 29 years) with disabilities, five males and five females. All the participants had rich experiences of sport. An inductive approach to qualitative content analysis of semi-structured interviews was used to enable individuals to explain and give meaning to their experiences of sport including those pertaining to gender and inclusion. The findings illustrated that dominating gender and ability norms influenced the interviewees' understanding of themselves in relation to sport; as a consequence, some of the female interviewees had a more diverse, sometimes contradictory experience of sport than the male interviewees. The basic premise of this study is that researchers can develop more insightful understandings of inclusion by studying the subjective meanings that are constructed by people with disabilities in their sport experiences.

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Temporal and Social Contexts of Heroin-Using Populations An Illustration of the Snowball Sampling Technique

Cited by 164 publications

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Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Saudi Arabian Mothers’ Child Feeding Practices, Autonomy, and Concern about Child Weight

Culture Conflict Between Moonshiners and the Government: An Explanation of Jury Nullification and Nolle Prosequi in Illicit Alcohol Offenses in Rural Communities

Experiences and Perceptions of Young Adults with Physical Disabilities on Sports

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