Practical Ethics for the Expert Witness in Ergonomics and Human Factors Forensic Cases
This chapter describes how many texts concerning the intersection of law and applied disciplines address ethical concerns in passing or do not address them at all. Ethical concerns are like skin, skin is our larges organ and the one that interacts with the world around us. However, it is simply overlooked until something goes wrong – and so it with ethics. If ethical concerns are unaddressed, they will surely emerge during forensic consultation and often with potentially disastrous results. The objective of this chapter is to alert the reader to some concerns which, if addressed appropriately, lead to the immense satisfaction of doing a job professionally and also serving society. The chapter will address the ethical questions that face the expert at the beginning of a case, followed by some questions that might arise during the data gathering and consultation state, and the chapter concludes with questions that arise during the concluding stage.
Forensic standards in the American Psychological Association's new ethics code.
The 1992 revision of the American Psychological Association's ethics code includes, for the first time, a section devoted to forensic issues. This article examines the adequacy with which the Forensic Activities section addresses fundamental ethical issues inherent in forensic practices (i.e., being competent in forensic practice, dealing with requests for service, providing informed consent, providing services, and reporting findings). We conclude that the ethics code modestly addresses important forensic ethical issues and that it too often is characterized by inconsistencies, insufficient information, omissions, and the inappropriate application of the term forensic to general standards not uniquely related to forensic practice.
Fascism and the right in Europe, 1919-1945
This new text places interwar European fascism squarely in its historical context and analyses its relationship with other right wing, authoritarian movements and regimes. Beginning with the ideological roots of fascism in pre-1914 Europe, Martin Blinkhorn turns to the problem-torn Europe of 1919 to 1939 in order to explain why fascism emerged and why, in some settings, it flourished while in others it did not. In doing so he considers not just the 'major' fascist movements and regimes of Italy and Germany but the entire range of fascist and authoritarian ideas, movements and regimes present in the Europe of 1919-1945.