Allan Alfred
School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2020 Apr 21;27(3):397-411. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2020.1742243. eCollection 2020.
Forensic psychologists' role is well established, and they are rightly well regulated because their decisions and behaviour can have a significant impact on people's rights and interests. Their ethical integrity, however, partly hinges on the psycholegal research products (data, methods and instruments) that they and others use. The ethical regulation of researchers who produce products and their research processes is, however, fragmented, limited and narrow and largely focuses on domestic research. Relatively few scholars have examined the regulation of psycholegal research or commented on the ethical implications of recent court decisions. The purpose of this paper is to start a debate about the ethical regulation of researchers in the psycholegal field and consider methods of improving it to maintain society's trust in the field.
法医心理学家的角色已得到充分确立，并且因其决策和行为会对人们的权益产生重大影响，所以对他们进行合理的严格监管是恰当的。然而，他们的道德操守部分取决于他们自己以及其他人所使用的心理法学研究成果（数据、方法和工具）。然而，对生产这些成果的研究人员及其研究过程的道德监管却是零散、有限且狭隘的，并且主要集中在国内研究。相对较少的学者研究过心理法学研究的监管问题，或者对近期法院判决的伦理影响发表过评论。本文的目的是引发一场关于心理法学领域研究人员道德监管的辩论，并思考改进监管的方法，以维持社会对该领域的信任。
