S everal high-profile cases of research misconduct during the past decade have explicitly raised the question whether co-authors share responsibility for scientific misconduct perpetrated by a collaborator. There is no clear answer though, as different cases of misconduct differ in terms of how the co-authors were involved in the work. Nonetheless, media coverage, public interest, and intense d...

A model-based approach was used to develop performance measures from inmate misconduct data to compare public and private prisons. The performance measures indicated the impact of different prisons upon raising or lowering the probability of inmate misconduct. Data for all misconduct and two categories of misconduct, violent and drug, were generated for the 36 month period between January of 19...

We hypothesized that scientific misconduct (data fabrication or falsification) is goal-directed behavior. This hypothesis predicts that papers retracted for misconduct: are targeted to journals with a high impact factor (IF); are written by authors with additional papers withdrawn for misconduct; diffuse responsibility across many (perhaps innocent) co-authors; and are retracted slower than pap...

imposed by DHHS and, if so, what they should be. As the biomedical and behavioral research community continues to adopt policies and procedures that deal effectively with allegations or suspicions of scientific misconduct, the OSI should find fewer occasions to conduct its own investigations. Strong institutional frameworks for dealing with scientific misconduct also will enable the PHS to focu...

S everal high-profile cases of research misconduct during the past decade have explicitly raised the question whether co-authors share responsibility for scientific misconduct perpetrated by a collaborator. There is no clear answer though, as different cases of misconduct differ in terms of how the co-authors were involved in the work. Nonetheless, media coverage, public interest, and intense d...

S everal high-profile cases of research misconduct during the past decade have explicitly raised the question whether co-authors share responsibility for scientific misconduct perpetrated by a collaborator. There is no clear answer though, as different cases of misconduct differ in terms of how the co-authors were involved in the work. Nonetheless, media coverage, public interest, and intense d...

This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, we examine how citizens’ views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwarranted stops, and corruption—are shaped by race and other factors,...

BACKGROUND Professional misconduct in healthcare, a (generally) lasting situation in which patients are at risk or actually harmed, can jeopardise the health and well-being of patients and the quality of teamwork. Two types of professional misconduct can be distinguished: misconduct associated with incompetence and that associated with impairment. This study aimed to (1) quantify home-care nurs...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of information on the prevalence of scientific misconduct from Nigeria. OBJECTIVES This study aimed at determining the prevalence of scientific misconduct in a group of researchers in Nigeria. Factors associated with the prevalence were ascertained. METHOD A descriptive study of researchers who attended a scientific conference in 2010 was conducted using the ada...

The risk of sexual misconduct by forensic professionals appears at first glance to be far less than the risk of sexual misconduct by other clinical professionals. Yet, Faulkner and Regehr's article draws our attention to the unique and intriguing situation of females working in forensic settings and the very real risk of their engaging in sexual misconduct with male prisoners. The female worker...