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SES E 01, Sensitive issues as ethical issues: studying ethnic minority young men in prison
Invited Lecture
Contribution
In the presentation I will think over ethical dimensions related to a research project I have been involved in couple of years ago. The project dealt with criminality in the life course of young men with an immigrant or Roma background, and I conducted it together with Leena Suurpää. The empirical material consisted of narrative interviews of young men who had committed crimes (some were in prison), as well as interviews with professionals, NGO activists and civil cervants working with immigrant youth.
I will particularly ponder ethical challenges and dilemmas related to an attempt to understand research participants who are in a marginal position in a society. The topic of the project is sensitive in many ways: besides being a labelled group in many ways, the young immigrant males are overrepresented in the criminal statistics. We attempted to reach behind the statistics - to the subjective meanings of crimes and criminality in young men's everyday lives. Different phases of the research project included ethical aspects and dilemmas: they were visible in the process of selecting the topic and framework for the study as well as its central concepts, in recruiting the interviewees, in interview interaction as well as in writing up the research report. They are presented and analysed in the presentation.
Thus, the past research project will be documented from the perspective of research ethics.
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