title: Ethics in violence against women research: the sensitive, the dangerous, and the overlooked.
abstract: Traditional disciplinary guidelines are inadequate to address some of the ethical dilemmas that emerge when conducting research on violence against women and girls. This article is organized according to the ethical principles of respect for persons, privacy and confidentiality, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. In the article, I describe dilemmas involved in cross-cultural research, research on children, informed consent, voluntariness, coercion, deception, safety, mandated reporting, and dissemination. In the article, I include examples from qualitative and quantitative studies in many nations. I also offer suggestions for researchers and institutional review boards.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Springfield College, 263 Alden Street, Springfield, MA 01109. USA. lfontes@spfldcol.edu
authors.forename: Lisa Aronson
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Fontes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D035841:Behavioral Research / Q000941:ethics*; D026686:Beneficence; D002648:Child; D003068:Coercion; D003219:Confidentiality; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003625:Data Collection; D008192:Deception; D017579:Domestic Violence; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D037141:Mandatory Programs / Q000941:ethics; D018907:Privacy; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012107:Research Design; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations; D012935:Social Justice; D035862:Vulnerable Populations; D014930:Women