This book presents a vivid description of the solutions that
researchers have discovered for ethical dilemmas that pose
themselves at studying disadvantaged, vulnerable and victimized
populations. Ethical codes prescribe that the scholar should in all
circumstances avoid potential harm, that informed consent is
necessary and that the limits of confidentiality should always be
respected. However, in the practice of research among women
involved in prostitution, illegal immigrant workers, enslaved
children, people who sell their organs and all the traffickers
thereof, the ethical rules cannot always be followed. This book
shows that there is a surprising variety of arguable possibilities
in dealing with ethical dilemmas in the field. Authors reflect on
concrete experiences from their own fieldwork in a wide variety of
settings such as the USA, Singapore, Kosovo and The Netherlands.
Some choose to work on the basis of conscientious partiality,
others negotiate the rules with their informants and still others
purposely break the rules in order to disclose and damage the
exploiters. Researchers may find themselves in a vulnerable
position. Their experiences, as presented in this volume, will help
field workers, university administrators, representatives of
vulnerable groups, philosophers of ethics and most of all students
to go into the field well-prepared.This is a book that every
researcher planning to do fieldwork in the difficult field of
hidden, illicit and victimized people should read in advance. Dr.
Frank Bovenkerk, Professor (Emeritus), Willem Pompe Institute for
Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
This book allows a peek in the kitchen of empirical fieldwork,
going into not only "best practices," but mistakes made, in a
frank, courageous and honest way. Dr. Brenda C. Oude Breuil, Willem
Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Universiteit
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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