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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series editors' introduction -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Criminal justice research in an era of mass mobility: a brief introduction -- Part 1 Producing and presenting knowledge in an era of mass mobility -- 1 Taking the border for a walk: a reflection on the agonies and ecstasies of exploratory research -- 2 Manoeuvring in tricky waters: challenges in being a useful and critical migration scholar -- 3 'Crimmigration' statistics: numbers as evidence and problem -- 4 Funnel politics: framing an 'irreal' space -- Part 2 Epistemological and methodological accounts in practice -- 5 Expectations and realities of fieldwork by a nascent qualitative researcher -- 6 Spotting foreigners inside the courtroom: race, crime and the construction of foreignness -- 7 Migrant voices in the Global South: challenges of recruitment, participation and interpretation -- 8 Life and death in immigration detention -- 9 Making sense of the shifting 'field': ethical and practical considerations in researching life after immigration detention -- Part 3 The politics of positionality, ethics and emotions -- 10 Researching vulnerable women: sharing distress and the risk of secondary and vicarious trauma -- 11 In the absence of sympathy: serious criminal offenders and the impact of border control measures -- 12 Reflexivity and theorizing: conceptualizing the police role in migration control -- 13 Race at the border -- 14 One of us or one of them? Researcher positionality, language, and belonging in an all-foreign prison -- 15 Voices in immigration detention centres in Greece: different actors and possibilities for change -- Criminal justice research in an era of mass mobility: concluding remarks -- Index

Abstract
Skip patterns, in which certain questions should only be answered by subsets of respondents, are particularly challenging for mail surveys because respondents must navigate them themselves with no assistance from a computer or interviewer. Incorrect navigation of skip patterns can lead to (1) errors of omission, which is when respondents fail to answer follow-up questions they should answer; (2) errors of commission, which is when respondents answer follow-up questions they should skip; or (3) filter item nonresponse, which is when respondents fail to answer the initial filter question. Using experimental data from two general population surveys of Nebraskans, this paper examines three visual design elements—common region, indentation, and subnumbering—aimed at decreasing skip errors in mail surveys. Each design element is intended to create stronger grouping and subgrouping among items within skip patterns, thus clarifying the navigational path and decreasing skip errors. We compare error rates across treatments overall and by respondent age, education, and literacy to assess whether visual cues can provide additional aid to those who might struggle with reading text cues. We find that using separate enclosures or subnumbering of the follow-up questions significantly reduces commission error rates and using indentation significantly increases omission error rates. In addition, none of the tested visual designs were more effective for older, less educated, or lower literacy respondents than for their counterparts.

"We live in an era of mass mobility where governments remain committed to closing borders, engaging with securitisation discourses and restrictive immigration policies, which in turn nurture xenophobia and racism. It is within this wider context of social and political unrest that the contributors of this collection reflect on their experiences of conducting criminological research. This collection focuses on the challenges of doing research on the intersections between criminal justice and immigration control, choosing and changing methodologies while juggling the disciplinary and interdisciplinary requirements of the works audience. From research design, to fieldwork to writing-up, this book captures every part of the research process, drawing on a range of topics such as migration control, immigrant detention and border policing. It also reflects on more neglected areas such as the interpersonal and institutional contexts of research and the ontological and epistemological assumptions embedded within data analysis methods. It makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the major developments in current research in this field, how and why they occur and with what consequences. This book seeks to shake off the phantom of undisturbed research settings by bringing to the fore the researchers' involvement in the research process and its products. An interdisciplinary collection, it can be used as a reference not just for those interested in the criminology of mobility but also as a learning tool for anyone conducting research on a highly charged topic in contemporary policy and politics."--Provided by publisher.