Moshim Azam: 4 page Essay on Ethical Dilemmas

Consider one of the following ethical dilemmas that may face a researcher. Describe ways you might anticipate the problem and actively address it in your research proposal.  What boundaries must researchers work within and who sets them?
 

1. A prisoner you are interviewing tells you about a potential breakout at the prison that night. What do you do?
2. A researcher on your team copies sentences from another study and incorporates them into the final written report for your project. What do you do?
3. A student collects data for her project from several individuals she has interviewed I families in your city. After the fourth interview, she tells you that she has not received approval for the project from the Institutional Review Board. What do you do? 

Instructions:

You will need to do an in-depth literary search on the topic in order to create a fully-developed response. You will need to include in-text citations and a references list for external references used in supporting your points for this question. You should have no fewer than 7 references for your response to this particular question, 4 of which must be from peer-reviewed sources.