Under what conditions do you think that randomized
assignment of subjects to a specific treatment is ethical in criminal justice
research? Was it ethical for Sherman and Berk (1984) and the researchers who
conducted the replication studies to randomly assign individuals accused of
domestic violence to an arrest or a nonarrest treatment? What about in a
laboratory study with students similar to yourself? Do you think it would be
ethical to assign students randomly to be “prisoners” in a study similar to
Zimbardo’s (2007)?
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