Applying Ethical Principles in Researching a Vulnerable Population: Homeless Women in Brisbane

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Menih, Helena
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2013
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This article focuses on the ethics of doing ethnographic research within a vulnerable population, specifically homeless women. In this article I reflect on a number of ethical dilemmas that occurred during the fieldwork related to exclusion criteria, recruitment process, informed consent, the participant-researcher relationship and the researcher's safety. Through self-reflection I explore how applying ethical principles to researching a vulnerable population raises difficult questions. The aim of this article is to encourage further debate about the application of ethical principles when researching a vulnerable population.This article focuses on the ethics of doing ethnographic research within a vulnerable population, specifically homeless women. In this article I reflect on a number of ethical dilemmas that occurred during the fieldwork related to exclusion criteria, recruitment process, informed consent, the participant-researcher relationship and the researcher's safety. Through self-reflection I explore how applying ethical principles to researching a vulnerable population raises difficult questions. The aim of this article is to encourage further debate about the application of ethical principles when researching a vulnerable population.
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Journal Title
Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Volume
25
Issue
1
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© 2013 Published by The Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Criminology not elsewhere classified
Criminology
Sociology
Law