Tag: Ethics
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Thoughts on Collaboration
Three years ago, I was contacted because of my work with a local domestic violence and sexual assault agency and my background as a legal psychologist. The person was reaching out about a case in my county involving an Amish perpetrator. I can honestly say that I had no idea where that one phone call…
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Thoughts on Hierarchies of Abuse
CW: abuse, interpersonal violence (IPV) I started this blog because I occasionally had a tendency to write novel-length Twitter threads in response to some ill-advised tweet from someone. It seemed better to create a blog instead of expect people to read a 20-tweet-long thread. That hasn’t happened in the time since I started this blog,…
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Thoughts on “Evil Triumphing”
There is a popularly known phrase, often (mis)attributed to Edmund Burke, although John Stuart Mills is known to have said something similar: “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men [people] to do nothing.” (John Stuart Mills’ quote is “Bad men [people] need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good…
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Thoughts on Advocacy, Nonprofits, and Academia
So, as I work on a project related to child sexual abuse among Anabaptists, especially Amish and Plain Mennonites, I’ve been thinking a lot about advocacy, nonprofits, and academia. I’ve realized that many people take a one-size-fits-all approach to advocacy, nonprofits, and academia. Rather than listening to those we are seeking to support, we tend…
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Thoughts on Academics “Selling Out”
I have thought a lot about academic integrity, and the ways in which some academics choose to “sell” their academic integrity in exchange for access to research participants, social clout, or professional status. This is often seen as a harmless “exchange,” but it has real consequences for people outside of academia, people who often don’t…
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