I trying to understand conflict in community policing, therefore I need the broader community perceptions and the views of the experts in community policing.
Focus groups can vary from less structured, with a few broad questions, to more structured, with a larger number of more researcher-oriented questions. In addition, you can divide your focus groups into two or more sets, so that the first set could be less structured, to help you write a more structured set of questions for the second set.
It is always good to use open ended and unstructured qs in interviews and focus group.As this is an exploratory technique one needs to have a set of rough qs in mind but one may have to coax the interviewee to answer for 30 mins which may need making qs then and therw based on the response of the samples first few qs
I believe input from focus groups are important and could enrich your data. Just using focus groups to draft semi-structured questions for individuals might cause you to miss pertinent information. It might be best to use 1 focus group to better understand what you're working with, and then use the information to draft better questions for a semi-structured interview for additional focus groups and key-informant interviews (individuals). Almost like pilot-testing first and then fine-tuning.
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