BACKGROUND Little is known about the institutional behaviour of incarcerated sex offenders. AIM To study the relationships between juvenile sex offending, thought psychopathology and institutional misconduct. METHOD We applied negative binomial regression and Area Under Curve Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUC-ROC) analyses to self-report and records data from institutionalised delinque...

This study examined the utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior model, augmented by descriptive norms and justifications, for predicting self-reported research misconduct and questionable research practices in university students. A convenience sample of 205 research active Western Australian university students (47 male, 158 female, ages 18-53 years, M = 22, SD = 4.78) completed an online su...

This paper reviews current research regarding the prevalence and possible etiological factors associated with male sexual coercion, defi ned here as a class of inappropriate male behaviors in which nonphysical tactics (e.g., verbal pressure, lying, deceit, and continual arguments) are utilized to obtain sexual contact with an unwilling adult female. This form of sexual misconduct is contrasted ...

This paper documents the existence of striking regional di®erences in the reported behaviour of employees working within the same ̄rm but in di®erent Italian regions. In particular, the frequency of recorded and punished misconduct episodes is signi ̄cantly higher among employees working in the south; migrants moving from the north to the south assimilate completely to the higher rate of miscond...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge engenders both a profound sense of wonder and responsibility. As life scientists, we endeavor to discover hidden truths that will illuminate specific pathways underlying basic life or death processes, or the mechanism of action of a therapeutic intervention. But what is truth? We expect what is true in a given set of experiments to be self-evident in our publ...

Research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, reviewing research, reporting research results (Anderson, 2013; Breen, 2016; Resnik, 2019). It can occur at many stages of the process. These include during proposal preparation, data collection, analysis and publication (Amin et al., 2012). The previous studies reported that 2,047 articles wer...

Reason: In the process of investigating an accusation of misconduct in the above manuscript, the Editors have found significant evidence of fraud perpetrated by some of the authors. 1) Dr. Wei Jia Kong’s name was used as the corresponding author without his knowledge or consent. Furthermore, Dr. Cai Pengcheng was unaware of his status as an author of the manuscript. 2) A fake email address for ...

In part II of this two-part series reporting on a survey of doctorate-granting schools of nursing on scientific integrity, the authors deal with publication and authorship practices, promotion/tenure policies, and suggested strategies to promote scientific integrity at institutional and broader levels, and the role of various agents in this regard. The findings suggest the importance of the rol...

Internet and CD-ROMs are now important sources of scientific research. Obviously, these computerized tools complement and supplement libraries. For some they seem to replace libraries, and web presentations of published works are used as seemingly infinite resource of texts for term papers, examination work and even research papers. There is evidence that the use of modern information technolog...