attachment I IRB Review

CSR, Incorporated Institutional Review Board

Type of Review:
Original

X Continuation (bi-annual)

Continuation (special)
Previously-Approved
Project

Project Title: Juveniles in Residential Facilities Census

Name of Principal Investigator or Project Director/Manager: Brecht Donoghue, Research
Coordinator, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention

Review Results:
Approved
by:

X Exempt

Full IRB
Review

Expedited
Review

(If expedited review, note justification in the comments section below)
Expiration Date: Not applicable
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Comments:
This research falls under exemptions set forth by federal regulations [45 CFR 46.101(b); 21 CFR
56.104(d); 38 CFR 16.102(b)]. Specifically there are six categories:

1) Research conducted in established or commonly accepted educational settings, involving
normal education practices, such as:
• Research on regular or special educational instructional strategies, or
• Research on the effectiveness of or the comparison among instructional techniques,
curricula, or classroom management methods.
2) Research involving the use of educational tests (cognitive, diagnostic, aptitude,
achievement), survey procedures, interview procedures or observation of public behavior,
unless:
• Information obtained is recorded in such a manner that human subjects can be
identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects; and
• Any disclosure of the human subjects' responses outside the research could reasonably
place the subjects at risk of criminal or civil liability; or
• Be damaging to the subjects' financial standing, employability, or reputation.
3) Research involving the use of educational tests (cognitive, diagnostic, aptitude,
achievement), survey procedures, interview procedures, or observation of public behavior
that is not exempt under category (b) of this section, if:
• The human subjects are elected or appointed public officials or candidates for public
office; or
• Federal statute(s) require(s) without exception that the confidentiality of the personally
identifiable information will be maintained throughout the research and thereafter.
4) Research involving the collection or study of existing data, documents, records, pathological
specimens, or diagnostic specimens, if these sources are publicly available or if the
information is recorded by the investigator in such a manner that subjects cannot be
identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects.
5) Research and demonstration projects which are conducted by or subject to the approval of
department or agency heads, and which are designed to study, evaluate, or otherwise
examine:
• The projects conducted pursuant to specific federal statutory authority such as programs
under the Social Security Act, or other federal statutory public benefit or services
programs;
• Procedures for obtaining benefits or services under those programs;
• Possible changes in or alternatives to those programs or procedures; or
• Possible changes in methods or levels of payment for benefits or services under those
programs.
• Projects for which there is no statutory requirement for IRB review;
• Projects that do not involve significant physical invasions or intrusions upon the privacy
interests of subjects;
• Authorization or concurrence by funding agencies that exemption from IRB review is
acceptable.

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6) Taste and food quality evaluation and consumer acceptance studies:
• If wholesome foods without additives are consumed; or
• If a food is consumed that contains a food ingredient at or below the level and for a use
found to be safe, or agricultural chemical or environmental contaminant at or below the
level found to be safe, by the FDA or approved by the Environmental Protection Agency
or the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
After a careful review of this request it was determined that the proposed research is
exempt under category 5. The following sections of the November 2002 Reauthorization
of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDP) specifically state:

(b) Statistical Analyses.--The Administrator may-(1) plan and identify the purposes and goals of all agreements carried out with
funds provided under this subsection; and
(2) undertake statistical work in juvenile justice matters, for the purpose of
providing for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of statistical data and
information relating to juvenile delinquency and serious crimes committed by
juveniles, to the juvenile justice system, to juvenile violence, and to other
purposes consistent with the purposes of this title and title I.
--42 U.S.C. 5661

Signature:
Chair, CSR Institutional Review Board

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