RESEARCH PROJECT

Research Project: Criminal Psychology and Forensic Psychology



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Ethical Issues

Please comment on all of these, and show that your study is ethically acceptable. Protection and welfare of students, informed consent, deception, debriefing, right to withdraw, confidentiality and anonymity, consent obtained? intended analyses, further issues.

Informed consent is a crucial factor and an important aspect of every research process. It is necessary that the researchers provide education to the respondents of the study so that they can make the decision that if they want to participate in the survey and provide information to the researcher. Confidentiality is a crucial element of any survey that has been conducted. It is the responsibility of the researcher to carry focus on the aspect of confidentiality for both the quantitative and qualitative phase. While reliability referred to the constancy and repeatability of the instrument, validity considers the ability of the instrument to accurately represent the characteristics of a phenomenon. Triangulation includes the use of various data resources, data gathering techniques or questioner. Therefore, ethical segment of the study is considered important by the researcher. As all of the participants will be explained clearly regarding the nature of the study and will be informed that the decision of involvement is totally reliant on their consent. Furthermore the researcher will also give special attestation on confirming that secrecy will be sustained and the information given will not be provided to anyone for personal use neither the researcher will use it for any personal use. Once the permission for conducting the research was received from the authorities, the researcher was focused over providing a genuine consent to the respondents, instead of providing them a consent that is more manipulated or biased. For the sake of achieving this goal, the data and information associated with the research was submitted prior to actually getting into the process of conducting the research. After that, the respondents were given confidence that their identities will be kept confidential and their personal information and data would not be revealed in public throughout the research process and even after the research is completed.

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This research is considered to be ethically acceptable/unacceptable. You may/may not begin data collection.

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Research Project: Criminal Psychology and Forensic Psychology

Introduction

The topic of boundary violations and multiple relationships raises number of critics in professional ethics of Criminal Psychology and Forensic Psychology. According to The American Psychological Association's Ethics committee, there are about 40 to 50% complaints that are related to multiple relationships (Meyers, 2005). Psychological experts are mostly criticized for not regarding and respecting the rights of their clients, which results in distrust among the parties, and hence in many cases their licenses have been revoked. Because of this, multiple relations have been regarded as the leading factor in the termination of the licenses (Meyers, 2005). In this research, we would be discussing the finer concepts of multiple relationships and the ethical issues related to ...