Efforts to apply ethical guidelines and regulations to vulnerable populations are often problematic. Consequently, health and social scientists sometimes shy away from the challenges of research, particularly when it means addressing value-laden social problems such as sexuality, drugs, and racism. Ethical Issues in Community-Based Research with Children and Youth is a collection of essays that describe the uniqueness of community-based research, outlining several of the ethical concerns that it engenders. The contributors examine such issues as the scope of informed consent to multiple stakeholders, determining competence to give consent in marginalized populations, and managing dual roles as participant researchers. The collection suggests that a more collaborative, ongoing, and discursive approach is needed by researchers and by ethical review boards to ensure that research on sensitive social problems with high risk populations is supported and also conducted with a clear understanding of the highest ethical standards possible.

Elizabeth Bannister is a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Victoria.

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Cecilia Benoit is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

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Bonnie J. Leadbeater is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria.

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Mikael Jansson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria.

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Anne Marshall is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. She is the author of Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). She is also the author of numerous articles in journals and collections including Slavery & Abolition, Agricultural History, and Master Narratives: Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South (Louisiana State University Press, Spring (2013). In 2011 she won the George and Ann Richards Award for best article in The Journal of the Civil War Era.

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Ted Riecken is a professor in the Department of Curriculum of Instruction at the University of Victoria.

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