Traditions and innovations in qualitative criminological research methods

Liquid Criminology.Doing imaginative criminological research' (edited by Hviid Jacobsen & Walklate, 2016), 'The Routledge Handbook of Qualitative Criminology' (edited by Copes & Miller, 2015), 'Qualitative Research in Criminology' (Treadwell, 2019).The establishment of journals such as Qualitative Criminology and initiatives like the Working Group on Qualitative Research Methodologies and Epistemologies at the European Society of Criminology, or the the Qualitative Research Network in Criminology & Criminal Justice (QRN-CCJ) also signify a renewed recognition of the importance of qualitative approaches in understanding complex criminologically relevant phenomena.More recently, the CrimRxiv Consortium started a curation hub on qualitative criminology aimed at spotlighting studies based on non-numeric data.Diverse criminological subfields such as global and green criminology, cultural criminology, and narrative criminology, have not only enriched our understanding of the respective topics but have also paved the way for innovative qualitative methodologies.Creative, reflexive and interventionist epistemologies and methodologies proved to be prerequisite, in order to imaginatively (Mills, 1959;Young, 2011)