Unobtrusive Methods in Social Research

By Raymond M. Lee. 2000

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The Organized/Disorganized Typology of Serial Murder: Myth or Model? (2004, methodology): “The use of archival material as a data source, as utilized here, recognizes that this material can form the basis of what Webb, Campbell, Schwartz, Sechrest, and Grove (1981) identified as “unobtrusive” methods, recently extensively reviewed by Lee (2000).”
Offender profiling and investigative psychology (2004, methodology): “To make effective use of the information it has to be captured, found, or retrieved in ways that are directly analogous to the broader development of ‘unobtrusive’ and ‘non-reactive’ measures that Lee (2000) describes, as discussed at length by Canter and Alison (2003).”
Unobtrusive measurement: using police information for forensic research (2001, background): “Physical location Lee (2000) suggests that examining the way individuals use and organize space and how people relate to each other in that space is a useful way of understanding processes of social interaction.”