The postconviction prison disciplinary records of capital defendants (n = 73) who had been the subject of defense-sponsored violence risk assessments or risk-related testimony (1995-2007) that asserted an improbability of future serious prison violence were analyzed. During postconviction prison tenures averaging 4.4 years, none of the capital defendants was cited for accomplished serious assau...

A sample of 689 adolescents (grades 7-12) from two Midwestern communities who had been identified by peers as members of one of three major peer groups responded to a self-report survey measuring perceptions of peer pressure in five areas of behavior: involvement with peers, school involvement, family involvement, conformity to peer norms, and misconduct. Perceived pressures toward peer involve...

A vast literature has focused on sexual boundary violations in professional practice. Much of this analysis has focused on the intersection between gender and professional authority in cases of misconduct committed by male professionals against female clients and patients. Although certainly of importance, such power-based gender analysis may overlook instances of misconduct in which a female p...

In ISBE Newsletter (Supplement to Behavioral Ecology)Volume 17, issue 2 fall/winter 2005 Ken Otter, Newsletter Editor writes among others in Editorial: "this issue also contains an article on scientific misconduct that builds on the commentary by Montgomerie and Birkhead published in the previous Newsletter (ISBE Newsletter 17: 16-24). In his article "Improving the processing of scientific misc...

BACKGROUND There is a perception that socioeconomically disadvantaged patients tend to sue their doctors more frequently. As a result, some physicians may be reluctant to treat poor patients or treat such patients differently from other patient groups in terms of medical care provided. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES We (1) examined existing literature to refute the notion that poor patients are inclined ...

State apology laws offer a separate avenue from traditional damages-centric tort reforms to address medical malpractice liability. These laws facilitate apologies from physicians by excluding statements of apology from malpractice trials. Prior research suggests that apologies may assuage the anger of patients, decrease the number of claims filed, and lower settlement amounts. Using a unique da...

research misconduct is not a new problem in the research field. however, in recent years, the researchers themselves could be a victim of a newly expanded trouble: being hijacked by email. being obsessive about publishing one’s research results and finding the “real journals” seems not to be enough in recent years. in this article we will have a closer look to this issue and discuss two real ex...

Although numerous studies have attempted to understand the causes of various forms of police misconduct, there is still no clear theoretical explanation of police misbehavior. Akers’ social learning theory posits that peer associations, attitudes, reinforcement, and modeling are predictors of delinquency and crime in general. With this article, we seek to determine if the theory can account for...