TY - JOUR
AU1 - Maruna, Shadd
AU2 - Matravers, Amanda
AB - Theoretical Criminology © 2007 SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore. www.sagepublications.com Vol. 11(4): 427–442; 1362–4806 DOI: 10.1177/1362480607081833 = = Criminology and the person SHADD MARUNA AND AMANDA MATRAVERS Queen’s University Belfast, UK and American University, Washington DC, USA This is a rather special Special Issue of Theoretical Criminology, perhaps even the first of its kind. Unusually, all of the articles in this issue—which emerged out of a two-part panel at the British Society of Criminology Annual Meeting organized by Tony Jefferson and Mechthild Bereswill— involve re-analyses of data from a single criminological study. More unusu- ally still, the study being re-analyzed involves a sample size of one: ‘Stanley’ from Clifford Shaw’s The Jack-Roller (1930/1966). To some, this detailed scrutiny of a single case surely must seem like overkill. After all, if it is true that ‘size doesn’t matter’ in some aspects of life, this is hardly the case in social science research where bigger sample sizes are routinely accorded a privileged place in methodological circles. Comments like, ‘Have you seen the size of their sample? It’s massive!’ are commonplace at academic meetings. Even in qualitative work, journal reviewers and PhD supervisors typically favor sample sizes around 
TI - N = 1
JF - Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal
DO - 10.1177/1362480607081833
DA - 2007-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/n-1-65Ifc0CuXl
SP - 427
EP - 442
VL - 11
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -