413047-Underground-Commercial-Sex-Economy

Appendix E
Inmate Consent Form
STUDY PARTICIPANT INFORMED CONSENT FORM
My name is Meredith Dank and I work at the Urban Institute, a non-profit research firm in
Washington, DC. We are doing this study for the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of
Justice. Our goal is to learn about your employment history prior to incarceration and your
involvement in any underground economies such as drug dealing, pimping, promoting prostitution or
the selling of fake goods.
The following things will happen in this interview:
1. You will be asked, in private, about your employment history prior to incarceration and your
involvement in any underground economies such as drug dealing, pimping, promoting
prostitution and the selling of fake goods. We will talk about your business and the people you
worked with before going to prison. This interview will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour. You
may refuse to answer any question and you may stop the interview at any time. If you want to
speak with a counselor at any point during or after the interview, we will contact the
appropriate person(s) to make sure you can speak to someone right away.
We promise you the following things:
Confidentiality: Everything you say will be kept confidential. Nobody outside of the Urban
Institute team will be told your name and any other information about you without your
permission. That means that the government, such as the Bureau of Prisons and FBI, and other
people, such as the general public, will not know what you say to us. We are going to combine
what you say with everyone else we talk with. That way no one will be able to figure out who
said what.
Any information that you tell us cannot be used to change your status here in . Talking to us
will not change the programs or services you get in prison or when you go home.
The confidentiality is protected by law under Title 28 Part 22 of the Code of Federal
Regulations. That means that information discussed in the interviews (except as otherwise
mentioned) are fully protected from law enforcement investigation. We also ask that you not
discuss new or unprosecuted criminal activity during today’s interview. If you begin to talk
about these activities, we will stop you from continuing to do so. Everyone who works on this
project must sign a contract to make sure they do not to tell anyone outside of the research team
anything about you.
There is one exception to our promise of confidentiality. We will tell someone if you tell us
specific information about child abuse, your plans to commit a future crime, or your plans to
hurt yourself. But we don’t plan to talk about those things.
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