Pt. I. What Is Sensitive Research? 1. The Problems of Researching Sensitive Topics: An Overview and Introduction / Raymond M. Lee and Claire M. Renzetti. 2. The Ethics and Politics of Sensitive Research / Joan E. Sieber -- Pt. II. Designing Research on Sensitive Topics. 3. The Cyclical Pattern of Child Abuse: A Study of Research Methodology / Sharon D. Herzberger. 4. Measuring the Underground Economy: A Suitable Case for Interdisciplinary Treatment? / J. J. Thomas. 5. Doing Research in Post-Tiananmen China / Daniel J. Curran and Sandra Cook. 6. Developing a Community Sample of Gay Men for an Epidemiological Study of AIDS / John L. Martin and Laura Dean -- Pt. III. Sensitivity in Field Research. 7. "They Must Be Crazy:" Some of the Difficulties in Researching "Cults" / Marybeth Ayella. 8. Sensitivity as a Problem in Field Research: A Study of Routine Policing in Northern Ireland / John D. Brewer
9. Mediating the Message: Affinity and Hostility in Research on Sensitive Topics / Nigel G. Fielding. 10. AIDS Prevention Research: Old Problems and New Solutions / Benjamin P. Bowser and Joan E. Sieber -- Pt. IV. The Use of Feminist Methodologies in Researching Sensitive Topics. 11. An Education in Interviewing: Placing the Researcher and the Research / Rosalind Edwards. 12. Interviewing Survivors of Marital Rape: Doing Feminist Research on Sensitive Topics / Raquel Kennedy Bergen. 13. Using Visual Imagery to Explore Gendered Notions of Pain / Gillian Bendelow -- Pt. V. Disseminating Sensitive Research Findings: Structural and Personal Constraints. 14. Studying African Women's Secret Societies / Pamela J. Brink. 15. Ethical Issues in Self-Censorship: Ethnographic Research on Sensitive Topics / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. 16. Anticipating Media Coverage: Methodological Decisions in Criminal Justice Research / Noreen L. Channels