Informed consent

Informed consent

An ethical requirement of social scientific research which specifies that research subjects will be informed as to the nature of the research about to be conducted, their anticipated role in it, and the uses to which the data they provide will be put.

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Industry/Domain: Sociology
Category: Criminology
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