An Extended And Restorative Version Of Chambliss 1978 Work

On the Take is an extended and restorative version of Chambliss’ 1978 work. Of which its intentions quickly become apparent, Chambliss’s aim was to find out what similarities credited local, state and national political figures share. He speculates that all of these political figures have, to some extent been involved with a form of white collar crime. Chambliss focuses on Seattle’s history of white collar crime and political corruption throughout adjoining its associations with bureaucracy, politics and power. With the intention to gain clarification and substance behind his given argument. In Seattle, Washington, in the early 1960s Chambliss was an acting faculty member at the University of Washington. It was here where he began his investigation using qualitative methods such as instigating interviews. Chambliss then extended his works to Las Vegas, Miami, New York, and elsewhere in the United States, then he ultimately took his research further on national travels to Thailand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Africa, and Cuba. Amidst his interviewees are drug dealers and addicts, CIA agents, drug enforcement officials, politicians, gamblers, smugglers and journalists. A central issue in qualitative research is trustworthiness. There are many different ways of ensuring this, according to Lincoln and Guba these include ‘member check, interviewer corroboration, peer debriefing, prolonged engagement, negative case analysis, auditability, confirmability, bracketing, and balance’. What