Marcel Van der Watt

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What counts as 'evidence' when researching social phenomena (crime, social problems)? Why dismiss qualitative insights when stats are lacking?

As an example, the human trafficking phenomenon has been dismissed by a handful of researchers/critics in South Africa who claims that there is "little evidence to substantiate" that the issue is...

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Complexity theory and the criminal justice system?

Can anyone refer me to research exploring the application of complexity theory to the criminal justice system? Or the application of complexity theory to a complex social phenomenon i.e. human...

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Co-authoring journal articles: Data generated from a PhD study

A voluminous amount of qualitative data has been generated from my Ph.D study (in excess of 100 unstructured interviews that is coded). Despite working on a number of draft articles, I will by no...

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