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Women and Crack-Cocaine In compiling data for their book,

In compiling data for their book, Women and Crack-Cocaine, Inciardi, Lockwood and Pottieger (1993) stated that data were collected based on a variety of qualitative ethnographic research techniques. In general, these techniques included: non-random sampling methods; the use of interview methods; case study techniques; and field observation methods.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the qualitative research techniques used to collect and interpret data. It can be noted here that analyzing methods used in writing books about psychosocial phenomena are important because, in any study, confidence can be placed in findings only to the extent that the research can be supported as having internal validity. The presented analysis concludes with an overall evaluation of the general soundness of the research.

Regarding the internal validity associated with the qualitative methods used by Inciardi et. al (1993), it can be noted here that the use of these research techniques have certain advantages and disadvantages. Clearly, one of the primary advantages associated with the qualitative methods used by the authors is that they offered strategies for obtaining information in a setting where the use of strict experimental methods (e.g., random assignment of subjects to groups, control of extraneous variables, etc.) would have been impossible to apply.

Indeed, with respect to the foregoing, Inciardi reports that the setting was such that even basic survey methods could not be used. As he put it:

...the peculiar life style, illegal drug-taking, and drug-seeking activities, and mobility characteristics of active drug users preclude any examination of this group through standard survey methods. (p. 148)

Thus, the use of qualitative/ethnographic research methods by Inciardi, Lockwood and Pottieger (1993) served the purpose of obtaining some information in a situation where more controlled procedures were ...

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