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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 81
... prison policy, as well as for affording health benefits to prisoners. At the same time, research could impose unacceptable risks on prisoners, complicated by serious concerns about the potential for coercion in the prison environment ...
... prisoner wants to participate in research, his or her views should be taken into account. The overall goal, then, is to permit scientifically rigorous research to the extent that it confers ... research involving prisoners taking x PREFACE.
Committee on Ethical Considerations for Revisions to DHHS Regulations for Protection of Prisoners Involved in Research, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. mined there is a great deal of research involving prisoners ...
... Research, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine. Contents. ACRONYMS SUMMARY 1 1 INTRODUCTION Why Now ... Prisoner Population, 31 Summary of Findings on Changing Demographics and Health Issues, 58 Current Research ...
... Prisoner Research, 102 Correctional Settings Encompass More than Prisons and Jails, 103 Definition of Prisoner, 105 Delineation of Settings, 109 When Proposed Regulations ... Research with Prisoners, 151 Prison Research Subject xiv CONTENTS.
Contents
1 | |
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 |