Faculty & Research Published Research Research Education Economics Social Psychology Health Policy Social Entrepreneurship Environmental Policy Leadership Racial Justice and Equity National Security Political Science Advocacy Domestic Policy & Politics International and Global Affairs Democracy Social Equity International Development Research and Commentary (-) Ethics Facet Area of Focus - Research Richard Bonnie Ruth Gaare Bernheim Bala Mulloth Eileen Chou John Pepper Facet People - Research Facet UVA Partner - Research Published Research Ethics Social Psychology What's in a name? The toll e-signatures take on individual honesty Authors: Eileen Chou People cherish and embrace the symbolic value that their unique handwritten signature holds. Technological advances, however, have led organizations to reject traditional handwritten signatures in favor of the efficiency and convenience of e-signatures. Learn more Published Research Ethics Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Authors: James Childress, Richard Bonnie, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, A. Melnick Learn more Published Research Ethics Public Health Accreditation and Metrics for Ethics Authors: Ruth Gaare Bernheim Learn more Published Research Ethics Verdant Power: A Case of Ethical Leadership Authors: Bala Mulloth, Mark Griffiths, Jill Kickul We describe the ethical leadership dilemmas confronting Verdant Power. Formed in 2000, this New York City marine renewable energy company develops projects and technology that delivers electricity directly into the local power grid. Learn more Published Research Ethics Software Agents, Anticipatory Ethics, and Accountability Authors: Gary E. Marchant, Braden R. Allenby, Joseph R. Herkert (eds) This chapter takes up a case study of the accountability issues around increasingly autonomous computer systems. In this early phase of their development, certain computer systems are being referred to as “software agents” or “autonomous systems” because they operate in a variety of ways that are seemingly independent of human control. Learn more Published Research Ethics “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Authors: JL Hochschild, V. Weaver For the first time in American history, the 2000 United States census allowed individuals to choose more than one race. That new policy sets up our exploration of whether and how multiracialism is entering Americans’ understanding and practice of race. Learn more Published Research Ethics Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Authors: Richard Bonnie The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Learn more Published Research Ethics Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940 Authors: Jeffery A. Jenkins, Justin Peck, Vesla M. Weaver Prior analyses of congressional action on the issue of black civil rights have typically examined either of the two major Reconstructions. Our paper attempts to fill the large five-decade black box between the end of the First Reconstruction and the beginning of the Second, routinely skipped over in scholarship on Congress, parties, and racial politics. Learn more Published Research Ethics Identification of Expected Outcomes in a Data Error Mixing Model with Multiplicative Mean Authors: John Pepper, Brent Kreider We consider the problem of identifying a mean outcome in corrupt sampling where the observed outcome is drawn from a mixture of the distribution of interest and another distribution. Relaxing the contaminated sampling assumption that the outcome is statistically independent of the mixing process, we assess the identifying power of an assumption that the conditional means of the distributions differ by a factor of proportionality. Learn more Published Research Ethics Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy Authors: Vesla M. Weaver Civil rights cemented its place on the national agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fair housing legislation, federal enforcement of school integration, and the outlawing of discriminatory voting mechanisms in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Less recognized but no less important, the Second Reconstruction also witnessed one of the most punitive interventions in United States history. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Social Psychology What's in a name? The toll e-signatures take on individual honesty Authors: Eileen Chou People cherish and embrace the symbolic value that their unique handwritten signature holds. Technological advances, however, have led organizations to reject traditional handwritten signatures in favor of the efficiency and convenience of e-signatures. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Essentials Of Public Health Ethics Authors: James Childress, Richard Bonnie, Ruth Gaare Bernheim, A. Melnick Learn more
Published Research Ethics Public Health Accreditation and Metrics for Ethics Authors: Ruth Gaare Bernheim Learn more
Published Research Ethics Verdant Power: A Case of Ethical Leadership Authors: Bala Mulloth, Mark Griffiths, Jill Kickul We describe the ethical leadership dilemmas confronting Verdant Power. Formed in 2000, this New York City marine renewable energy company develops projects and technology that delivers electricity directly into the local power grid. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Software Agents, Anticipatory Ethics, and Accountability Authors: Gary E. Marchant, Braden R. Allenby, Joseph R. Herkert (eds) This chapter takes up a case study of the accountability issues around increasingly autonomous computer systems. In this early phase of their development, certain computer systems are being referred to as “software agents” or “autonomous systems” because they operate in a variety of ways that are seemingly independent of human control. Learn more
Published Research Ethics “There’s No One as Irish as Barack O’Bama”: The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism Authors: JL Hochschild, V. Weaver For the first time in American history, the 2000 United States census allowed individuals to choose more than one race. That new policy sets up our exploration of whether and how multiracialism is entering Americans’ understanding and practice of race. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Should a Personality Disorder Qualify as a Mental Disease in Insanity Adjudication? Authors: Richard Bonnie The determinative issue in applying the insanity defense is whether the defendant experienced a legally relevant functional impairment at the time of the offense. Categorical exclusion of personality disorders from the definition of mental disease is clinically and morally arbitrary because it may lead to unfair conviction of a defendant with a personality disorder who actually experienced severe, legally relevant impairments at the time of the crime. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Between Reconstructions: Congressional Action on Civil Rights, 1891-1940 Authors: Jeffery A. Jenkins, Justin Peck, Vesla M. Weaver Prior analyses of congressional action on the issue of black civil rights have typically examined either of the two major Reconstructions. Our paper attempts to fill the large five-decade black box between the end of the First Reconstruction and the beginning of the Second, routinely skipped over in scholarship on Congress, parties, and racial politics. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Identification of Expected Outcomes in a Data Error Mixing Model with Multiplicative Mean Authors: John Pepper, Brent Kreider We consider the problem of identifying a mean outcome in corrupt sampling where the observed outcome is drawn from a mixture of the distribution of interest and another distribution. Relaxing the contaminated sampling assumption that the outcome is statistically independent of the mixing process, we assess the identifying power of an assumption that the conditional means of the distributions differ by a factor of proportionality. Learn more
Published Research Ethics Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy Authors: Vesla M. Weaver Civil rights cemented its place on the national agenda with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fair housing legislation, federal enforcement of school integration, and the outlawing of discriminatory voting mechanisms in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Less recognized but no less important, the Second Reconstruction also witnessed one of the most punitive interventions in United States history. Learn more