The feminist criminological research process has focused on minimizing power imbalances between the researcher and the researched. Generally, this has meant adjusting an imbalance that assumes the researcher holds an absolute monopoly on power. According to feminist methodologies seeking to redress this, steps must then be taken to elevate the research subject in the relationship between researcher and researched. Gender alone, however, does not provide a sufficiently sophisticated lens through which to analyze power dynamics in ethnographic research. Both structural and situational factors will play a role in the researcher’s reception. In this article, I aim to move beyond the debate of whether a researcher causes harm. Instead, it is a manner of degrees. Drawing on my experiences from an ethnographic study of police, I argue that if the field of criminology better facilitates reflexive methods and allows the researcher to reflect on how her own background may bias her conclusions, we may minimize this harm to some degree.

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客体而非代理人：警察研究中的反身性和暴力

女权主义犯罪学研究过程的重点是尽量减少研究人员和被研究人员之间的权力不平衡。一般来说，这意味着调整假设研究人员对权力拥有绝对垄断权的不平衡。根据试图解决这一问题的女权主义方法论，必须采取措施提升研究对象与被研究对象之间的关系。然而，单独的性别并不能提供一个足够复杂的镜头来分析人种学研究中的权力动态。结构和情境因素都会影响研究人员的接受度。在本文中，我的目标是超越研究人员是否造成伤害的争论。相反，它是一种程度的方式。根据我对警察的人种学研究的经验，