CAST THE FIRST STONE? |
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| Authors: | HANS TOCH |
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| Institution: | Hans Toch is Professor of Psychology at the School of Criminal Justice. State University of Nenr York at Albany. He was previouslv associated with the Department of Psychology at Michigan Stare University and has tought at Harvard. Toch' books include Legal and Criminal Psychology, Social Psychology of Social Movements, Violent Men, Agents of Change, Living in Prison. Therapeutic Communities in Corrections, Peacekeeping, Psychology of Crime and Criminal Justice, and Men in Crisis, which won the 1977 Hadley Cantril Memorial Award. |
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| Abstract: | Notorious scientific scandals leave the impression that a line between ethical and unethical research can be drawn, but routine examples show that an ethical penumbra exists. Breaches of ethics in science rarely surface. Most collegial charges of unethical conduct can be dismissed as being partisan; outsiders’ethical questions are more threatening, because they imply that violations are widespread. Such implications can be neutralized by “self-regulation.” Unethical behavior must be purposive. Technical violations can be attributed to ignorance. The downplaying of ethics preserves the “community-of-scholars” myth; highlighting the ethics issue would destroy this myth. |
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