Sociology 3357F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Academic Dishonesty, Embezzlement, White-Collar Crime

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 3357F/G
• Professor: Georgios Fthenos

Document Summary

Crimes by professionals in educational system: four types of misconduct that appears to be among the more common types of academic misconduct. Crimes in the educational system (vi) include: research misconduct. Refers to the range of behaviors center around researchers engaging in various forms of wrongdoing during the course of their research. Can include fabricating data, masking findings, plagiarism, intriguing research subjects. Plagiarism by professor is more likely to occur in humanities and social sciences then in unethically the hard sciences. Research misconduct has severe consequences on several levels: consequences for the individual faculty member, financial consequences for the college or university, moral consequences for the college or university, consequences for members of society, consequences for various cultures. As in other white-collar crime cases, many of those who commit research misconduct commit various forms of misconduct on multiple occasions. In most cases offenders act alone in this distinguishes it from many other forms of white- collar crime.