Debates on positionality and partisanship in the research process are long-standing, complex and often highly contentious. Engaging with, and contributing to, both these key debates, this paper introduces the concept of victim-as-researcher. This draws from the author’s experiences of undertaking research in Trinidad and Tobago with a group of offenders who had committed similar offences to that which the researcher was herself a victim. There is a paucity of literature which speaks to the experiences of victims of serious, violent crime who subsequently engage in qualitative research with offenders who have been convicted of offences similar to the ones experienced by the researcher and which, therefore, can elicit trauma whilst in the field and through analysis. This paper aims to extend the methodological literature on positionality and victimology by foregrounding the victim-as-researcher as an important category in reflexive sociological and criminological research.

关于研究过程中的位置和党派关系的辩论是长期存在的，复杂的，而且常常引起争议。通过参与这两个主要辩论并为之做出贡献，本文介绍了“作为研究者的受害者”的概念。这是根据作者在特立尼达和多巴哥与一群犯罪者进行研究的经验得出的，这些犯罪者的行为与研究者本身是受害者一样。很少有文献讲述严重暴力犯罪的受害者的经历，这些受害者随后与被定罪的犯罪者进行了定性研究，这些犯罪与研究人员所经历的犯罪类似，因此在被捕期间可能造成创伤。领域并通过分析。