Exam 2: Ethics in Criminal Justice Research

Is informed consent necessary in all field research? Discuss and give some examples of where you think it is or is not necessary.

According to Soloway and Walters, once summoned to testify, researchers have no legal recourse but to divulge informa tion or face a contempt citation.

What are the various roles that the criminal justice re searcher must play? How do these relate to ethical issues in the conduct of criminal justice research? Do you agree that the researcher's primary role is that of scientist? Explain.

Discuss the issue of confidentiality and protection of subjects in criminal justice research.What legal liability and/or protections are attached to criminal justice research?

Laws enacted by Congress grant the right of privileged communication to contracted HHS researchers in criminal proceedings.

NIJ uses its own entirely different guidelines than HHS for regulating research conduct.

Discuss and give examples of what the text calls "Ethical 'Horror' Stories." What attempts have been made to prevent a repeat of such incidents?

While a number of examples were given in the text of unethical biomedical experiments, there have fortunately been no such examples in the social sciences.

In reality science itself is amoral, ethically neutral.

The primary danger in Milgram's "Obedience to Authority" experiment was that some subjects might get electrocuted.

Since the Belmont Report, most of the decisions regarding protection of human subjects in research is under the control of Institutional Review Boards.

A major ethical concern regarding Milgram's experiment was the deceiving of subjects into believing they were physically harming other human beings.

Which of the following was not identified as a key element in the "classic professionalism model"?

What does the term reciprocity entail in criminal justice research?

_________________ are research screening committees set up in colleges and universities to oversee the ethical propriety of research.

_________________ is a term for aliases used in research reports to protect the identity of respondents.

_________________ refers to a system of mutual obligation between subjects and researchers.

Which of the following was not suggested in the text as appropriate in guiding ethical conduct in criminal justice research?

Which of the following is not contained in the HHS Guidelines on the Protection of Human Subjects?

What problems for criminal justice field research are raised by federal grant requirements of "informed consent" of subjects?