Abstract
Partaking in ethical committees and personal ethical dilemmas emerging from one’s investigations can bring several challenges to researchers on drug use and drug policies. The way one decides to act and reflect upon these challenges, however, can both increase the researchers’ comprehension and provide valuable data. This chapter discusses three types of ethical dilemmas that emerged during a qualitative study on how social and health workers as well as police make policy for illicit drugs happen. The study used participant observation of and in-depth interviews with workers in the cities of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Porto Alegre, Brazil.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Snapshots of Social Drug Reasearch in Europe |
| Editors | Jane Fountain, Marije Wouters, Dirk Korf |
| Place of Publication | Lengerich |
| Publisher | Pabst Science Publishers |
| Pages | 79-80 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-89967-911-3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Ethics
- ethical committees
- qualitative research