Ethics Paper
This paper requires the student to justify their actions when faced with an ethical dilemma. Choose one of the following ethical dilemmas and reflect upon what you would do if you were the researcher.
- You are working on an intellectual biography of a well-respected police chief. Most of your interviews are with the chief who has obviously consented to your request to compose an intellectual biography, including some attention to his formative years. You are reading all of his published works and interviewing some family members as well as significant colleagues. In the process, you uncover some potentially damaging or, at the least, unflattering information about his private life. What do you do?
Write on the potential ethical issues that might arise during the study you choose. What can you do to minimize their potential? What would you do if faced with your ethical concerns?
Key things to remember or include:
- Support actions with academic sources
- Use the Belmont Report to help understand guidelines for researchers.
- Key in on specifics in the scenario.
- Don’t be vague!
- Be precise in the actions that would be taken.
- Discuss/describe the unique perspective of multiple key characters in the scenario (police chief, you as the researcher, people you are interviewing)
- Include information on the research on ethics used during the research process
- Use APA subtitles in the paper.
- No abstract in necessary
