Most chapters were presented at the conference held Feb. 23-25, 1978 in Washington, D.C. and sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Solutions to ethical and legal problems in social research : an overview / Henry W. Riecken -- Spurious, tractable, and intractable legal problems : a positivist approach to law and social science research / Lee E. Teitelbaum -- Reducing the hazards of human experiments through modifications in research design / Hans Zeisel -- Statistics and ethics in surgery and anesthesia / John P. Gilbert, Buchnam McPeek, Frederick Mosteller -- Ethical issues in the prediction of criminal violence / John Monahan -- Randomized social experiments and the law / Marshall J. Breger -- The signed form - informed consent? / Charles W. Lidz and Loren H. Roth -- Randomization and consent in the New Mexico teleconferencing experiment : legal and ethical considerations / Jerome R. Corsi -- The efficient conduct of social science research and administrative review procedures / Launor F. Carter -- Informed consent procedures in surveys : some reasons for minimal effects on response / Eleanor Singer -- The statutory protection of confidential research data : synthesis and evaluation / Robert L. Nelson and Terry E. Hedrick -- Randomized response / Tore Dalenius -- Social research use of archival records : procedural solutions to privacy problems / Joseph Steinberg -- Statutory approaches to ensuring the privacy and confidentiality of social science research information : the law enforcement assistance administration experience / Thomas J. Madden and Helen S. Lessin -- Proposed legislation to improve statistical and research access to federal records / Lois Alexander -- Solutions to legal and ethical problems in applied social research : perspective and prospects / Robert F. Boruch.