Improving the law reform process: Opportunities for empirical qualitative research?

Research on law reform has identified a variety of factors that help or hinder the reform process, but it has not systematically explored the role that empirical research plays and could play in enabling and enhancing law reform. Drawing on a series of qualitative interviews with criminal law reform experts in Victoria, we analyse the current uses and perceived value of empirical research in criminal law reform and explore opportunities for qualitative research methods to be used more systematically or extensively to improve criminal law reform processes and outcomes.

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Experiences of Divorced Women Subject to Domestic Violence in Turkey

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520927503 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052092750

Author(s):

Görkem Kelebek-Küçükarslan ◽

Özlem Cankurtaran

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Domestic Violence ◽

Coping Strategies ◽

Research Methods ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Qualitative Research Methods ◽

External Factors ◽

Awareness Raising

This study examines the experiences of divorced women who were subjected to domestic violence from their former spouses. The purpose of this study includes investigating violence in marital life and post-divorce, coping strategies for survival and external factors that empower/disempower women based on their life experiences. The study uses qualitative research methods. The data are retrieved from qualitative interviews with 13 women who were exposed to domestic violence while they were married and after their divorce. The participants were divorced through either informal or formal divorce procedures. Five themes emerged from the study: how to seek help, the endless circle of violence, divorce and family oppression, coping strategies, and awareness raising. The study shows that, during the divorce process, the participant women became more empowered and adopted better coping strategies than in the pre-divorce period. The study provides an understanding of domestic violence in the post-divorce phase. This research reveals the continuation of partner violence even after divorce.

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Specificity and complementarity of quantitative and qualitative research

Wiadomości Statystyczne. The Polish Statistician ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0014.0870 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 16-27

Author(s):

Piotr Tarka

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Research ◽

Research Methods ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Qualitative Research Methods ◽

Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽

Effective Integration ◽

Quality Theory

This article examines the interrelationships between quantitative and qualitative research. Firstly, the essence and assumptions of quantitative and qualitative research methods were defined and the comparison between them was made on the basis of philosophy, quality metrology (a branch of science dealing with quality theory) and statistics. Moreover, the differences between the two types of research were discussed in the context of the planned experiments and empirical research. In the next part of the study, the possibilities of effective integration of quantitative and qualitative research in the process of triangulation were described.

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