Methodological rigor and ethical considerations in Internet-mediated research.

Mathy, Robin M.; Kerr, Deborah L.; Haydin, Brian M.

doi:10.1037/0033-3204.40.1-2.77

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“…Correct answers might be required in order to proceed to the actual study questionnaire. Additionally, consent may be obtained using unique passwords required for study entry, requiring email requests for the survey, verification of age through cross-checking with other information, or physically mailing consent forms to participants (Allensworth-Davies & Chaisson, 2008;Binik et al, 1999;Mathy, Kerr, & Haydin, 2003). However, these strategies for ensuring informed consent run the risk of compromising anonymity and revealing participants' identities.…”

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Legal, ethical, and methodological considerations in the Internet‐based study of child pornography offenders

Ray

Kimonis

Donoghue

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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With its ever-growing penetration of remote regions of the world, the Internet provides great opportunity for conducting research. Beyond clear advantages such as increased cost-effectiveness and efficiency in collecting large samples, Internet-based research has proven particularly useful in reaching hidden or marginalized populations who engage in illegal or deviant behaviors. However, this new medium for research raises important and complex legal, ethical, and methodological/technological issues that researchers must address, particularly when studying undetected criminal behaviors. The current paper chronicles various issues that were encountered in the implementation of an active Internet-based pilot research study of child pornography (CP) users. Moreover, this study was undertaken to address a critical gap in the existing research on CP offending, which has to date primarily focused on incarcerated or convicted samples. The Internet provides the optimal medium for studying community populations of CP users, given that it has become the primary market for CP distribution. This paper is designed to serve as a guide for researchers interested in conducting Internet-based research studies on criminal and sexually deviant populations, particularly CP offenders. Several recommendations are offered based on our own experiences in the implementation of this study.

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Legal, ethical, and methodological considerations in the Internet‐based study of child pornography offenders

Ray

Kimonis

Donoghue

2009

Behavioral Sci & The Law

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“…Online psychological research differs from in-person psychological research in many ways (Mathy et al, 2003), and many of these differences present challenges to designing an ethical study. The first obvious difference is that researchers usually have no direct contact with participants.…”

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“…Participants can print, sign, and mail the consent form. Digital signatures can be legally substituted for written signatures (Electronic Signatures Act, 2000); however, digital signatures are no more convecarefully to ensure that the participants understand the information given (Kraut et al, 2004;Mathy et al, 2003). We recommend that researchers use simpler language than they would during an in-person study and avoid idioms, unless they know in advance that all potential participants will have high language fluency.…”

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“…Here are three possible alternatives. One easy method of documenting consent is to allow participants to indicate that they do not want to participate, as recommended by Mathy et al (2003). The consent form can ask participants to choose between two options-"I consent" and "I do not consent"-and these responses can be sent to the database or collected from server log files.…”

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“…For example, data are often sent electronically from the participant's computer to the researcher's computer, whereas in many in-person studies, the participant completes measures on paper. Without careful consideration of the implications of such methodological differences, researchers who are new to online research (and the number of such researchers increases each year) are likely to design studies that fail to meet accepted standards (Mathy, Kerr, & Haydin, 2003).…”

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Methodological rigor and ethical considerations in Internet-mediated research.

Cited by 36 publications

References 22 publications

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