Lived economies of default : consumer credit, debt collection, and the capture of affect
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 21 - Sociology
- Output identifier
- 242221521
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9780203383254
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9780415622509
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Lived Economies of Default draws on an extensive and diverse range of empirical materials including: 20 interviews with debtors, ethnographic observation in three UK debt collection companies, interviews with professionals in the debt collection and credit reference industries, analysis of letters and other materials used in debt collection work, and a previously unstudied archive of industry publications from 1940 to the present day. Access to direct observation of debt collection practices and interviews with debt collection industry professionals was challenging: the industry is suspicious of outsiders given the many controversies around its practices and a history of undercover journalistic exposés.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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