ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores a myriad of ethical issues related to the scholarly use of criminal evidence for ‘extra-legal’ purposes such as research. It focuses on the boundaries between death researchers and what they study and offers a very personal account of a difficult experience particular to doing research with dying people. The book also offers an important addition to the methods literature on doing death research by stressing the significance of this epistemological issue. It also focuses on translation and the pragmatic and epistemological complexities involved in working with research data in multiple languages. The book deals with matters of ‘translation’ and their epistemological possibilities. It provides a deeply reflective and thorough examination of if/how knowledge created about a marginalised death experience can be communicated sensitively and responsibly to research audiences, both academic and public.
