This book charts the changing topography of ethics, governance and accountability for research in Criminology, contributes to the discourse on research ethics and demonstrates why research ethics should be taken seriously.

Pedagogical features such as case studies, chapter summaries, lists of further reading and explanations of key concepts appear throughout the text to encourage critical thinking. This book is enlightening and compelling reading for students of criminology and particularly for those taking modules on Research Methods in Criminology.

Introduction (Malcolm Cowburn, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Azrini Wahidin)

Part I: Research Methods: Issues and Practice

Introduction to Part I

1. The ethical challenges of evidence based policy research (Chris Fox)

2. Criminal history: Uses of the past and the ethics of the archive (Paul Knepper)

3. Ethical Challenges: Doing research with children (Evi Girling)

4. The role of ethics in prisoner research (Linda Moore and Azrini Wahidin)

5. Researching the Police: inside-outside perspectives in a new world of police professionalism and practitioner research (Peter Neyroud)

6. The ethics of research on social work in criminal justice (David Smith)

Part II: Foregrounding Sensitive Issues: Politics, Ethics and dilemmas

Introduction to Part II

7.Researching sex crimes and sex offenders: some ethical and epistemological considerations (Malcolm Cowburn)

8. Researching Child Sexual Assault: Towards a Child Sensitive Methodology (Simon Hackett)

9. Ethical Challenges: Researching War Crimes (Kirsten Campbell)

10. Methodological innovations and ethical challenges in green criminology (Avi Brisman and Nigel South)

Part III: The Changing Face of Governance: Issues, Dilemmas and Practical Solutions

Introduction to Part III

11. Ethics in Criminological Research: A Powerful Force, or a Force for the Powerful? (Mark Israel and Loraine Gelsthorpe)

12. Doing the Right Thing: Some notes on the control of research in British criminology (Simon Winlow and Fiona Measham)

13. Critical Reflections Creating, Curtailing and Communicating Academic Freedoms (Malcolm Cowburn, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Azrini Wahidin)

Malcolm Cowburn is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Science at Sheffield Hallam University.

Loraine Gelsthorpe is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Azrini Wahidin is Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Social Sciences, Business and Law, Teesside University