Ethical Issues in Crime and Justice Research Protection of human research participants is fundamental and should remain paramount to any research endeavor (Federman, Hannah, & Rodriquez, 2003). When it comes to crime and justice research, ethics play a crucial role in how the process should be carried out. There is a code of ethics describing the conduction of research. This code stands on the principles and guidelines generated by professional organizations to oversee research practices and simplify the lines of ethical and unethical conduct (Kraska & Neuman, 2012). The history of human participant’s protection started in 1947 with the Nuremberg Code developed as standards to scrutinize experiments involving human research conducted by Nazi. In
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The purpose of the experiment was to understand how people conform to roles of prisoners and guards in prison life. Zimbardo experiment wanted to know if the brutality experienced by American prisons guards were because of the sadistic personality of the guards or due to the prison environment (Kraska & Neuman, 2012). Volunteers were used in the experiment conducted in the basement of the university facility. However, the study ended before the anticipated time because of complaints of brutal punishment from the guards while other participants backed out of the experiment. The experiment showed how people readily conformed to social roles in day-to-day life. The participants, in this case, were well informed of their responsibilities (Kraska & Neuman, 2012).
In 1974, the U.S. Government changed its policy in the way human research was conducted mainly due to the Tuskegee experiments. The law required participants to be informed before taking part in a study. It helped protect human subjects of Biomedical Research to develop measures to protect human experiments in medicine (Federman, Hannah, & Rodriquez,
The purpose of the experiment was to understand how people conform to roles of prisoners and guards in prison life. Zimbardo experiment wanted to know if the brutality experienced by American prisons guards were because of the sadistic personality of the guards or due to the prison environment (Kraska & Neuman, 2012). Volunteers were used in the experiment conducted in the basement of the university facility. However, the study ended before the anticipated time because of complaints of brutal punishment from the guards while other participants backed out of the experiment. The experiment showed how people readily conformed to social roles in day-to-day life. The participants, in this case, were well informed of their responsibilities (Kraska & Neuman, 2012).
In 1974, the U.S. Government changed its policy in the way human research was conducted mainly due to the Tuskegee experiments. The law required participants to be informed before taking part in a study. It helped protect human subjects of Biomedical Research to develop measures to protect human experiments in medicine (Federman, Hannah, & Rodriquez,