To prepare for the interviews that will take place in Amsterdam we have contacted owners of coffee shops, pubs and cafes to ask permission to conduct interviews in their environment. We hope to hear back from some of the places as we feel that if we were to sit in a comfortable environment this would benefit our results. We would be able to gain a greater rapport with the participants, allowing them to go into more detail and feel less rushed in comparison to approaching strangers on the street.

The sample for our research project is five people who are on the field trip, and at least five who are tourists in Amsterdam. The five who are on the field trip will take part in an interview prior to going to Amsterdam. These will be semi structured interviews asking questions about their likelihood of engaging in deviant or criminal activity when in the UK. We will then interview the same five people whilst in Amsterdam asking them the same questions. These results will then be cross analysed and hopefully we should see a change in the behaviours, and morals, of the individual’s when in a foreign country with differing laws.

Whilst in Amsterdam each of us intend to log our experiences at the end of each day, these diary notes can then be used to support the results and will be put into the final write up of the project.