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Ethics is one of the most important topics in criminal justice and criminological research, yet it is also one of the most neglected. Indeed, it is common for professors to merely gloss over ethical issues at the end of their research methods classes, or to exclude them completely. The present study attempts to determine if such disregard for ethics carries over into the coverage found in criminal justice research methods textbooks. Eleven research methods textbooks that are commonly used in criminal justice and criminology were analyzed, and coverage of ethics was found to vary greatly across the books. Unfortunately, we also found that some important issues within research ethics are being omitted in the majority of the books, and we make recommendations toward expanding the coverage of research ethics.
A previous version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, Illinois-March, 1994, by Michael J. McSkimming, Paula Drach-Brillinger and Michael Dean Hiatt.
A previous version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, Illinois-March, 1994, by Michael J. McSkimming, Paula Drach-Brillinger and Michael Dean Hiatt.
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A previous version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago, Illinois-March, 1994, by Michael J. McSkimming, Paula Drach-Brillinger and Michael Dean Hiatt.
