Accountability, Collaboration, and Social Change: Ethical Tensions in an Action Research Project to Address Untested Sexual Assault Kits (SAKs)
| Autor: | Giannina Fehler-Cabral, Rebecca Campbell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Michigan
Health (social science) 0504 sociology Criminal Law Humans Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Survivors Cooperative Behavior Social Change Action research Crime Victims Applied Psychology Sexual assault Social Responsibility business.industry Forensic Sciences Sex Offenses 05 social sciences Social change Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Health services research 050401 social sciences methods Public relations Accountability Criminal law Health Services Research Sex offense business Social responsibility 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Community Psychology. 60:476-482 |
| ISSN: | 0091-0562 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajcp.12176 |
| Popis: | We conducted a collaborative action research project with stakeholders in Detroit, Michigan, to develop long-term policy strategies to resolve ~11,000 untested rape kits that were discovered in a police storage facility in August 2009. In our research, we uncovered overwhelming evidence of victim-blaming behaviors and fundamental disrespect of rape survivors by the police, which directly contributed to their decisions not to submit kits for forensic testing. We had an ethical responsibility to report these negative findings accurately and completely, and in doing so, we were concerned that police stakeholders might disengage from the action research project and hamper our other ethical responsibilities to promote general and public welfare. In this article, we examine the ethical challenges of balancing accountability, collaboration, and social change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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