TY - SER AU - O'Neill, Damian AU - Morgan,Mandy TI - Pragmatic post-structuralism (1): participant observation and discourse in evaluating violence intervention SN - 1099-1298 PY - 2001/// CY - New Jersey PB - Wiley KW - FVC KW - EVALUATION KW - PERPETRATOR PROGRAMMES KW - PROGRAMME EVALUATION KW - SOCIAL PROBLEMS KW - VIOLENCE KW - NEW ZEALAND N1 - Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 11(4) July/August 2001 : 263-275 N2 - This paper discusses the participant observation method of research applied via a poststructuralist approach, and in particular, the use of this method in evaluating a community based stopping violence programme. Whilst participant observation is often utilised as a method for process evaluation, its role within a post-structuralist programme is a unique application of a well-established research method. This has significant future implications for social science research approaches to both participant observation and evaluation ER -