1st Edition

Ethical Dilemmas in International Criminological Research

Edited By Michael Adorjan, Rosemary Ricciardelli Copyright 2023
188 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Building on the editors’ previous publication, Engaging with Ethics in International Criminological Research , this new book brings together a fresh collection of leading international scholars tackling ethical dilemmas in criminological research. Contributors address how they have experienced and addressed ethical issues in their research, and how they have balanced the benefits and harms of... Read more

1 Introduction: ethical event horizons in criminological research

MICHAEL ADORJAN AND ROSEMARY RICCIARDELLI

2 Research ethics, researchers’ responsibilities, and the ethical dilemmas in research with young people about their socio-political participation

PAUL VINOD KHIATANI AND WING HONG CHUI

3 Gaining little things and losing big things: the ethics of using deception to gain institutional access

LAURA HUEY

4 Befriending police officers: reflecting on the ethics of my deceptive buddy researcher tactics

AJAY SANDHU

5 Practitioner–researchers, ethical reflexivity, and the need to negotiate ethics on multiple institutional levels

ANA BORGES JELINIC

6 Cross-cultural and comparative research in Northern Ireland: insider, outsider, Other

ANNA ERIKSSON

7 Prison officer training: transient identity during immersive ethnography

HELEN ARNOLD AND ROSEMARY RICCIARDELLI

8 The ethics of researching “hard to reach” populations: the case of “hidden” older illegal drug users and the attendant advantages of an ethical approach

DAVID MOXON AND JAIME WATERS

9 The keepers of secrets: ethics and the emotional labour of working with privileged populations during criminological research

KATE LOWE AND ALEXANDRA RIDGWAY

10 Dreams and nightmares: interviewing research participants who have experienced psychological trauma

MARI TODD-KVAM AND DAVID RODRIGUEZ GOYES

11 Fear and loathing in the Philippines: the ethics of researching President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs

WILLIAM N. HOLDEN

12 Conclusion: an ethical imagination

MICHAEL ADORJAN AND ROSEMARY RICCIARDELLI

Biography

Michael Adorjan is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Fellow with the Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong.

Rosemary Ricciardelli is Professor in Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

"Drawing on a range of international scholarship, this book contributes to a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion  on the ethical processes, ethical thinking and decision making that researchers engage in while conducting  criminological research. The book is true to its commitment of including a Global South perspective. Each   chapter raises thought-provoking ethical issues that go beyond governance processes. The authors provide valuable  insights and analyses for researchers looking to expand their understanding of research ethics and being in the field."

Azrini Wahidin, University of Warwick, Programme Lead for the Sociology and Criminology Programme, Chair of the Ethics and Professional Affairs Committee, British Society of Criminology