Drawing on the experiences and expertise of a range of international contributors, this books centres on the realpolitik of conducting criminological research and discusses the ethical challenges and dilemmas involved.

1. Introduction (Michael Adorjan and Rose Ricciardelli)

Part I: Institutional Arrangements & Positionality

2. Ethics Creep: Governing Social Science Research in the Name of Ethics (Kevin Haggerty)

3. The Ethical Imagination - Reflections on conducting research in Hong Kong (Michael Adorjan)

4. Ethics, Politics and the Limits to Knowledge (Pat Carlen)

Part II: Trust and Research with Vulnerable Populations

5. A History of Coercive Practices: The Abuse of Consent in Research involving Prisoners and Prisons in the United States (Mark Israel)

6. Indigenous Peoples, Research and Ethics (Maggie Walter)

7. Ethics as Witnessing: 'Science', Research Ethics, and Victimization (Dale Spencer)

Part III: Research on and with Police

8. Navigating Research Relationships: Academia and Criminal Justice Agencies (Erin Gibbs Van Brunschot)

9. Commanding Officer, faculty member, and student: Auto-ethnographic experiences of academic-police collaborative partnerships (Rose Ricciardelli, Laura Huey, Hayley Crichton, and Tracy Hardy)

10. Criminologizing Everyday Life and Doing Policing Ethnography in China (Jianhua Xu)

Part IV: Emerging Areas

11. Carceral Tours and Missed Opportunities: Revisiting conceptual, ethical and pedagogical dilemmas (Justin Piché, Kevin Walby and Craig Minogue)

12. Illuminating the Dark Net: Methods and Ethics in Cryptomarket Research (James Martin)

13. Conclusion (Rose Ricciardelli and Michael Adorjan)

Michael Adorjan is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Fellow with the Centre for Criminology, University of Hong Kong, China.

Rose Ricciardelli is Associate Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.