CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Longitudinal Study, Institutional Review Board, Belmont Report
20 Mar 2018
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Criminology 220: ethics and criminal justice research (lecture 5) Human subjects research: social sciences rely on humans for research, experiments, data, observations. Ethical issues: what is ethical, conforming to the norms of standards of a group, varies across societies, some ways we treat prisoners in western countries differs from the way prisoners are treated in other countries. No harm to participants: physical, bodily harm, psychological, trickery & confusion, emotional, embarrassment, similar to psychological harm, things like sharing or reporting information to people who are not subjects to the research. Wigmore criteria and stated that the information was given in confidence: third-parties, bystanders, informants, protectors, researchers go out to collect data and informants are there for protection. Voluntary participation: can"t force subjects to participate. Special populations: groups who require special protections, prisoners, power and coercion. Juveniles: not old enough to give consent, other groups recognized by canadian council as (cid:498)vulnerable(cid:499, elderly, mentally ill, ethnocultural minorities.
