Ethical Considerations for Research Involving PrisonersIn the past 30 years, the population of prisoners in the United States has expanded almost 5-fold, correctional facilities are increasingly overcrowded, and more of the country's disadvantaged populations—racial minorities, women, people with mental illness, and people with communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis—are under correctional supervision. Because prisoners face restrictions on liberty and autonomy, have limited privacy, and often receive inadequate health care, they require specific protections when involved in research, particularly in today's correctional settings. Given these issues, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Human Research Protections commissioned the Institute of Medicine to review the ethical considerations regarding research involving prisoners. The resulting analysis contained in this book, Ethical Considerations for Research Involving Prisoners, emphasizes five broad actions to provide prisoners involved in research with critically important protections: • expand the definition of "prisoner"; • ensure universally and consistently applied standards of protection; • shift from a category-based to a risk-benefit approach to research review; • update the ethical framework to include collaborative responsibility; and • enhance systematic oversight of research involving prisoners. |
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... asked to endorse conclusions and recommendations. The responsibility for the content of the report rests with the authoring committee and the institution. 1The committee decided to exclude children (unless treated as adults), vi.
... recommendations nor did they see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Neil R. Powe, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical ...
... recommends five paradigmatic changes in the system of ethical protections for research involving prisoners. First, expand the definition of the term prisoner to include a much larger population of persons whose liberty is restricted by ...
... Recommendations on Stakeholder Responsibilities, 170 APPENDIXES A Data Sources and Methods B The National Commission's Deliberations and Findings C Report of the SACHRP Subcommittee and Human Subjects Protections D Code of Federal ...
... Recommendations: Research Involving Prisoners by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavior Research (NCPHSBBR, 1976). The general stance of Subpart C is that only research 2 ETHICAL ...
Contents
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1 Introduction | 21 |
Changing Demographics Health Issues and the Current Research Environment | 29 |
3 Federal Regulatory Landscape | 73 |
4 Defining Prisoners and Correctional Settings | 101 |
5 The Ethical Framework for Research Involving Prisoners | 113 |
6 Systems of Oversight Safeguards and Protections | 137 |
Appendixes | 175 |
B The National Commissions Deliberations and Findings | 191 |
C Report of the SACHRP Subcommittee and Human Subjects Protections | 199 |
Public Welfare Part 46 Protection of Human Subjects | 205 |
E Committee Expert Advisor Liaison Panel and Staff Biographies | 239 |
Index | 253 |