Introduction

There has long been a power struggle between quantitative and qualitative approaches to criminal justice and criminological research (DiCristina 1997). While this debate is certainly not limited to our discipline, it has certainly infected it. Indeed, opposing camps have emerged, with fierce loyalties and allegiances to their own peer-reviewed journals, and terms like “quantoids”—a label that is meant to be both pejorative and a badge of honor depending upon which side one is on—have even been coined (Worrall 2000).