Can prisoners, young children, mentally disabled adults, or the severely mentally ill give informed consent and participate voluntarily in social research studies? Explain your answer. Solution No. They can not particiapate in social research studies because young children, mentally disabled adults, or the severely mentally ill are not matured enough to give responses to the questions related to society. Prisoners, though they are matured but accessing information from them is quite difficult. some time they may give responses which are harm ful to the society..