Read the section on the Ethics Police and discuss what is the problem with IRB university reviews.  Questions: the blocking of research creativity?    Another bureaucracy that has good intentions but

Read the section on the Ethics Police and discuss what is the problem with IRB university reviews.

Questions:

the blocking of research creativity?

Another bureaucracy that has good intentions but stifles research?

Researchers looking at ethical rules originally targeted for medical abuses being hoisted on social sciences?

Directions:

Make sure and read the article on the Ethics Police as well as the issues involved in the Pathology of Imprisonment to understand some of the challenges in research among social scientists. Obviously there are reasons for an IRB review but there are also issues that hinder or prevent research from occurring.