Allan Alfred
School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2018 Jun 14;25(3):485-499. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2018.1473173. eCollection 2018.
States have an obligation to protect themselves and their citizens from harm, and they use the coercive powers of law to investigate threats, enforce rules and arbitrate disputes, thereby impacting on people's well-being and legal rights and privileges. Psychologists as a collective have a responsibility to use their abilities, knowledge, skill and experience to enhance law's effectiveness, efficiency, and reliability in preventing harm, but their professional behaviour in this collaboration must be moral. They could, however, find their personal values to be inappropriate or there to be insufficient moral guides and could find it difficult to obtain definitive moral guidance from law. The profession's ethical principles do, however, provide well-articulated, generally accepted and profession-appropriate guidance, but practitioners might encounter moral issues that can only be solved by the profession as a whole or society.
各国都有义务保护自己及其公民免受伤害，它们运用法律的强制力来调查威胁、执行规则和仲裁争端，从而影响人们的福祉以及法律权利和特权。作为一个群体，心理学家有责任运用他们的能力、知识、技能和经验来提高法律在预防伤害方面的有效性、效率和可靠性，但他们在这种合作中的专业行为必须合乎道德。然而，他们可能会发现自己的个人价值观不合适，或者缺乏足够的道德指引，并且可能难以从法律中获得明确的道德指导。不过，该行业的伦理原则确实提供了明确阐述、普遍接受且适合该行业的指导，但从业者可能会遇到只能由整个行业或社会来解决的道德问题。
