The most common ethical concern raised with experiments is deception. Often, you do not want to share all of the details with the subjects because it may cause them to change their behavior on purpose, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the experiment measuring what it set out to measure. To avoid informing the youth offenders that the art therapy program is only administered to half of the sample group and is an experiment, I would effectively debrief them after the fact, in this instance it would be after a one-year gap of release, as some, if any, of the recidivism would take pace within that year.
When deception takes place, we also lack voluntary participation and informed consent from the subjects being studied. It is important
When deception takes place, we also lack voluntary participation and informed consent from the subjects being studied. It is important