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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... Monitoring, 156 National Oversight, 157 Applying Safeguards for Particular Kinds of Research, 160 Sample Situations, 162 Other Categories and Types of Research Involving Prisoners Prohibited, 170 Impact of Committee Recommendations on ...
... monitoring of research involving prisoners. (6.3) • Modify institutional review board considerations for independent ethical review of research protocols. (6.4) • Enhance the Office for Human Research Protections's capacity to provide ...
... monitoring board (IOM, 2003). In the contexts described in this report, prison research subject advocates would be an important part of this network as well. 3Federal regulation of state and private research would be constitutionally ...
... monitoring safeguards need to be. Update the Ethical Framework to Include Collaborative Responsibility In the Belmont Report (NCPHSBBR, 1979), the national commission identified respect for persons, justice, and beneficence as the ...
... monitoring than social/ behavioral studies of nonsensitive issues (e.g., involving questionnaires). The committee suggests that monitoring be accomplished by a prison research subject advocate (PRSA), who is familiar with the local ...
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 |