Ethical and legal duties in conducting research on violence: lessons from the MacArthur Risk Assessment Study
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of PsychiatryDocument Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
1993-01-01Keywords
AdolescentAdult
*Behavioral Research
Codes of Ethics
Confidentiality
*Deinstitutionalization
*Ethics, Medical
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Disorders
*Mentally Ill Persons
Moral Obligations
Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
Occupational Health
*Patient Advocacy
Professional-Patient Relations
Reproducibility of Results
Research Design
Research Personnel
*Research Subjects
Researcher-Subject Relations
Risk Factors
United States
*Violence
Health Services Administration
Law
Mental and Social Health
Psychiatry
Psychiatry and Psychology
Public Health
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This article addresses the ethical and legal duties that must be confronted in any study of the risk of interpersonal violence in the community. Ongoing research--the MacArthur Risk Assessment Study--on the markers of violence among released mental patients is taken as illustrative. Methods by which the researchers are discharging their legal and ethical duties are described and justified. Strategies center around the duty to protect research subjects from their own violence, and the duties to protect research staff and third parties from subjects' violence. By airing these rarely discussed issues, the authors hope to initiate a professional dialogue on crucial ethical and legal aspects of the research process.Source
Violence Vict. 1993 Winter;8(4):387-96.Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45550PubMed ID
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