The dialogical workshop is open for researchers and students, doing research about gang preventions, gang exit processes, gang intervention and research with other ‘hard to reach groups’. Ross Deuchar opens the workshop with at presentation about his own research in gang interventions, qualitative research methods with hard to reach groups such as gang members, and the ethical protocols involved in this. The second half of the workshop will give possibilities for further dialogues among the participants in the workshop concerning questions of ethics, research exchanges about various research methods applied in and across studies of gang desistance, gang intervention, etc. The workshop is open for students and researchers.