Ethics in Forensic Science

"Downs, a medical examiner and consultant, and Swienton, a forensic attorney and consultant, provide forensic and criminal justice practitioners, crime scene investigators and photographers, law enforcement training centers, police academies and local agencies, and forensic consultants and scientists with a guide to ethics in forensic science. It contains 17 chapters by forensic science, law, and other specialists from the US who discuss the history of ethics, provide brief synopses of major theorists, and address topics like the religious perspective of applied ethics in forensics; general ethical dilemmas; codes of ethics in forensic science societies and other organizations (education, business, religion, medicine, etc.); the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner model; teaching ethics; criminal investigation, crime lab and crime scene, and judicial ethics; the post-conviction process; whistleblowers; and ethics in law enforcement, for child abuse prosecutors and defense attorneys, in testimony of forensic practitioners, and in media." --Reference and Research Book News, Inc."This book attempts to answer the question: "When is ethical, ethical, and when is it not?" Its contributors write on topics such as general forensic ethical dilemmas; codes of ethics as spelled out by forensic science societies; ethics in SANE practice; how to teach ethics; ethics in law enforcement, criminal investigations, crime laboratories, and crime scene investigations; and ethics for attorneys, prosecutors, and expert witnesses." --Evidence Technology Magazine, July-August 2012

• 1. A Brief History of EthicsJennifer Downs2. The Forensic Practitioner’s Quest for TruthFr. William Willoughby, III, Sister Elena Thompson, and J.C. Upshaw Downs3. General Forensic Ethical DilemmasJay A. Siegel4. Codes of Ethics in Forensic Science Societies:  The Organizational Parameters of Morality and ConductKenneth E. Melson5. Ethical Foundations for SANE PracticeLinda E. Ledray and Susan Chasson6. Ethics Codes in Other Organizations: Structures and EnforcementJ.C. Upshaw Downs and Anjali Ranadive Swienton7. Teaching EthicsMax M. Houck and Robin T. Bowen8. Ethics in Law Enforcement; Defining the Thin Blue LineFred E. Stephens9. Criminal Investigational EthicsJames Markey10. Ethics in the Crime Laboratory and in Crime Scene InvestigationsBarry A.J. Fisher11. Ethics for Child Abuse Prosecutors – A Call to LeadershipRachelle L. Carnesale12. Ethical Duties of Attorneys and Experts in Cases Involving Forensic Evidence, from the Perspective of the DefenseAndrea Roth13. Ethics in TestimonyJoseph P. Bono, Anjali Ranadive Swienton and J.C. Upshaw Downs14. Judicial EthicsHaskell M. Pitluck15. Ethics, Forensics, and the Post-Conviction ProcessJules Epstein16. Whistle BlowersJ.C. Upshaw Downs17. Ethics in MediaAnjali Ranadive Swienton and J.C. Upshaw Downs