Any Public Policy Discussion Involves Politics

question 51

Multiple Choice

Any public policy discussion involves politics.Which of the following is not accurate with respect to ethics and the political aspects of applied research?

• A) there is no set of political norms that are agreed upon by all criminal justice researchers
• B) just as there are codes for ethical conduct for researchers, there are formal codes of accepted political conduct
• C) ethics of criminal justice research deals more with the methods used while political issues are more concerned with the substance and use of the research
• D) there is no formal code of accepted political conduct

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