We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
'This Is How It's Always Been Done': The Treatment of Academic Misconduct in Canada.
- Authors
Lytton, Hugh
- Abstract
The article presents the author's views on Academic misconducts. According to the author, it has to be acknowledged that one impediment to the open investigation of scientific misconduct by university faculty may be faculty associations and unions. In their desire, and, indeed, their duty to protect union members against unfair dismissal and inequitable employment practices, they may sometimes insist on procedures that hamper open and effective probes of possible academic misconduct. In the case of academic misconduct, the union's lawyer, in defending the client, might well engineer a cover-up of the fraud finding, and then the union's local executive may be trapped into approving it and identifying with it. This, indeed, could amount to condoning the offense. Thus in its pursuit of a full defense of one member, the union may be undermining the integrity of scholarship, and in fact, may possibly be injuring the interests of the vast majority of members. In the U.S. the penalties imposed on researchers whom a university or agency' committee has found guilty of scientific fraud usually consist of debarment from seeking federal grants for varying numbers of years depending on the seriousness of the offence. Penalties also often include a period during which the offenders' work has to be supervised by a third party who can guarantee that research has been done honestly.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL behavior; COLLEGE teachers; PERSONNEL changes; FINES (Penalties); PUNISHMENT; COLLEGE teachers' unions
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1996, Vol 21, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341978