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Institutional Review Boards: Virtue Machines Or Villains?

Bruce L. Berg

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

W. Timothy Austin

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Glenn A. Zuern

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

A Central purpose of institutional review boards is to preserve and maintain the safety and integrity of human subjects. While this is the manifest purpose, some people might question the actual effects IRBs have on the research enterprise. This paper explores whether IRBs may actually create situations where researchers feel forced to compromise either their research or their personal integrity in order to have research projects approved by institutional review boards. A review of the literature is combined with consideration of current practice and implications. A specific focus examines different views of the function of the IRB process. Several theoretical assumptions emerge which furnish direction for future empirical study.

Criminal Justice Policy Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 87-102 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/088740349200600201
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