Lawfull Social Science

Reviews the book, Social Research in Conflict With Law and Ethics by Paul Nejelski (Ed.) (1976). Lawyers and their viewpoints are prominently represented in this collection of some of the papers from a 1974 conference sponsored by the Zentrum fur Interdiszplinare Forschung of the University of Bielefeld. Nejelski devotes most attention to the research worker's right of access to government documents and bureaucratically held information, and the investigator's "responsibility to disclose his or her sources of information when it may bear upon a criminal act, while giving somewhat less attention to legal aspects of privacy and the protection of research subjects. The last two sections of the book are very useful. These sections perhaps better than any others reveal the way lawyers approach the "protection" problem and the aspects that catch their attention-matters that are foreign to most psychologists but, one may project, ought soon to be a part of their professional training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)