Ethics in violence against women research: The sensitive, the dangerous, and the overlooked

Ethics and Behavior

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-174

  Fontes, Lisa Aronson ^a,b  

^a SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Psychology Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Cross cultural; Ethics; Research; Violence against women

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044236566     PISSN: 10508422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327019eb1402_4     Document Type: Review

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