In response to the critique that some of the accounts of her book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City are inconsistent, Alice Goffman claims that she was protecting her research subjects by omitting details that could identify them. Goffman argues that her actions were ethical because .1. they involved deception.2. they ensured her subjects' confidentiality.3. she did not commit any crimes.4. she was exempt from having to get approval from an institutional review board.

2. they ensured her subjects' confidentiality

Explanation:

Goffman argument is that her actions were ethical because they ensured her subjects' confidentiality and Goffman claims that the parts of her ethnography that would fill in the gaps in her story would also make it possible to identify her research subjects, and this would potentially put them in harm's way.

2. they ensured her subjects' confidentiality

Explanation:

Alice Goffman is an American sociologist and became popular for academic controversy over her book On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, an ethnographic account of the fieldwork for her PhD thesis on the effects of mass incarceration and policing on African-American urban communities with low incomes.

Alice protected her research subjects by omitting details that could identify them, which where ethical because they ensured her subjects' confidentiality

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