CRIM 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bodily Harm, Legal Liability, Informed Consent
14 May 2018
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Monday, February 5, 2018
Research Methods – Lecture Notes
o Week 5: Ethics and Criminal Justice Research
o Human Subjects Research
o Social sciences rely on humans for research
o Experiments
o Data
o Observations
o Ethical Issues
o What is ethical?
o Conforming to the norms of standards of a group.
o Varies across societies.
o No Harm to Participants
o Physical
o Bodily harm
o Psychological
o Trickery and confusion
o Emotional
o Embarrassment
o Parties Involved
o Research subjects/participants
o Direct involvement in the study.
o Researchers
o Harm
o Legal liability
▪ Wigmore criteria
• Example: Russel Ogden v. SFU – Russel was an SFU
student who invoked the Wigmore criteria when asked for
research information in court. Which then changed SFU’s
research protocols.
o Third parties
o Bystanders
o Informants
o Voluntary participation
o Can’t force subjects to participate
o Informed consent: agreement to participate after being informed about goals,
procedures, and potential risks.
o Example: SFU research protocols website link *.
o Exceptions
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