Ethical Principles in Social-Behavioral Research on Terrorism: Probing the Parameters

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Online Extremism and Terrorism Research Ethics: Researcher Safety, Informed Consent, and the Need for Tailored Guidelines

“…No code of ethics for terrorism research has yet been developed, despite calls for same dating back over at least a decade, and probably much longer. 54 There are however, a number of useful guidelines and codes of practice for undertaking ethically informed Internet research. The most well-known and widely relied upon documents are the aforementioned AoIR ethics guidelines, the third and most recent version of which, "Ethical Decision-making and Internet Research," appeared in 2019, but which should be consulted in conjunction with their first (2002) and second (2012) iterations.…”