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Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science, 2e explores the ethical issues facing those who work in the forensic sciences, highlighting the complicated nature of ethics and decision-making at the crime scene, lab, and in the courts. This edition provides a new chapter on the "Ferguson Effect" faced by the criminal justice system, an exploration of ethical conundrums and real-world examples that forensic scientists confront every day, as well as an outline of the NAS recommendations and progress made on ethics in forensic science. The book serves both as an essential resource for laboratories and as an invaluable textbook for the growing number of courses on ethics in criminal justice and forensic science.
List of contents
Preface 1. What is Ethics? 2. An Ethical Approach to Forensic Professionalism 3. Ethics in Forensic Science 4. The Ethics of the Criminal Justice Culture 5. Changing the "Game" of Policing: Ethics and Efficacy in Police Reform and Forensic Investigations 6. Ethics in the Courtroom 7. Research Ethics in Science 8. Unethical Behavior: The Fork in the Road 9. Good Examples of Bad Behavior 10. Codes of Ethics Bibliography Appendix A. Additional U.S. Forensic Science Professional Codes of Ethics Appendix B. U.S. Law Enforcement Professional Codes of Ethics Appendix C. International Forensic Science Professional Codes of Ethics Appendix D. When Ethics Are Used to Retaliate
About the author
Robin Bowen has an undergraduate degree in Forensic and Investigative Sciences, a graduate degree in Secondary Science Education, and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Instructional Design and Technology from West Virginia University. She is currently teaching a number of courses at the undergraduate level and is the minor coordinator in the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science at West Virginia University. Bowen was formerly the Assistant Director for Forensic and Investigative Science Outreach, a program that developed research, scientific resources, and professional training for forensic scientists and related professionals. Her primary responsibilities included coordination of continuing education programs, management of research projects, and correspondence of progress to the National Institute of Justice. Ms. Bowen is the author of Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science. She has participated as an advisory member of the Outreach and Communication Interagency Working Group (IWG) under the National Science and Technology Council Subcommittee (NSTC) on Forensic Science and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the revised edition of Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences. Bowen was the primary developer of the Forensic Educational Alliance, an initiative to offer a variety of forensic science continuing education online courses.
