given the hypothetical research situations. what is the ethical component in each example. do you thing the procedures are acceptable or unacceptable? why?
a. After a field study of deviant behavior during a riot, law enforcement officialz demand that the researcher identify those people who were observed looting. Rather than risk arrest as an accomplice after the fact, the researcher complies.
b. after completing the final draft of a book reportung a research project, the researcher/authot discovers that 25 of the 2,000 survey interviews were falsified by interviewers. To protect the bulk of the research, the author leaves out this information and publishes the book.
c. Researchers obtain a list of right-wing radicals they wish to study. They contact the radicals with the explanation that each has been selected “at random” from among the general population to take a sampling of “public opinion”
d. A researcher studying dorm life on campus discovers that 60 percent of the residents regularly violate restrictions on alcohom consumption. Publication of this finding would probably creat a furor in the campus community. Because no extensive analysis of alcohol ise is planned, the researcher decides to keep this finding quiet.