Secrecy, Privacy & Accountability: Challenges for Social Research

Abstract

Offers an original and distinctive approach to combining sociological, legal, methodological and ethical issues

Draws on the author’s first-hand experience of using the FOIA in his research to collect information that public bodies were reluctant to disclose

Provides a key point of reference for those concerned with the potential for the Freedom of Information Act to serve as a research tool for critical social science