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1|Acknowledgements|5
1|Contents|6
1|List of Figures|7
1|List of Tables|8
1|Introduction: ‘I Committed Scientific Fraud, I Changed and Invented Research Data’|9
1|1 Why Should Criminology Study Research Misconduct?|16
2|1.1 The Relevance of Criminology|17
2|1.2 Criminological Studies of Research Misconduct|20
2|1.3 Research Misconduct as White-Collar Crime|28
2|1.4 Applying White-Collar Crime Scholarship to Research Misconduct|41
2|References|43
1|2 What Is Research Misconduct?|53
2|2.1 A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place|55
2|2.2 What Exactly Is Known About Research Misconduct?|61
3|Research Misconduct in Numbers|62
3|Features of the Researcher and the Research Environment|63
3|Regulating, Detecting, and Sanctioning Research Misconduct|65
3|Prevention of Research Misconduct and Promotion of Integrity|70
3|Harms and Costs|72
2|2.3 Research Misconduct: Looking into the Shattered Glass|73
2|References|74
1|3 Good Luck with the Research That Will End Your Career|85
2|3.1 Using Qualitative Methods and Assessing Their Quality|87
2|3.2 Interviewing Scholars on Research Misconduct|93
2|3.3 Analysing Documents on Research Misconduct|99
3|The Corpus|101
2|3.4 Analysis of Interviews and Documents|106
2|3.5 Challenges in Researching Research Misconduct|107
3|Researching the Elites and the Powerful|107
2|3.6 Researching Your Peers and How It Changes You|110
2|References|112
1|4 What Do Researchers Know and Perceive About Research Misconduct?|118
2|4.1 Authorship Practices: ‘The Hunger for Publications’ (S16)|119
2|4.2 Problematic Methodological Procedures: ‘We All Want Our Data to Look Just as Good as Possible’ (S2)|125
2|4.3 Bias in Peer Assessment—‘There’s the One That Glows … and Some Are Pushed to the Corner’ (S13)|130
2|4.4 Relations with External Actors: ‘If You Bring Money You Have the Freedom to Decide on Everything’ (S8)|137
3|Interference|138
3|Influence|142
3|Ambivalence|144
2|4.5 Science Under Pressure: Recognition and Funding|145
2|4.6 Convergence Mechanisms for Recognition and Funding Goals|150
3|Pressure|151
3|Social Control|152
3|Lack of Alternatives and Scarce Resources|154
3|Individual Reaction Strategies|155
2|References|160
1|5 Preventing, Regulating, and Punishing Research Misconduct: Myth or Reality?|163
2|5.1 Scholars’ Perception of Social Control of Research Misconduct|164
2|5.2 European Scientific Policies for Controlling Research Misconduct|172
3|Definitions of Research Misconduct|172
3|Evidence-Based Knowledge About Research Misconduct|174
3|Actors Involved in Controlling Research|176
3|Proposed Models of Control for Research Misconduct|178
3|Justifications Used for Proposed Control Models for Research Misconduct|180
2|5.3 Globalization Versus Harmonization|182
2|5.4 Self-Regulation Versus Hetero-regulation|188
2|5.5 Testing Hypotheses in a Largely Qualitative Study|194
2|5.6 A Synthesis of Results|199
2|References|202
1|6 A Criminological Agenda for Studying Research Misconduct|204
2|6.1 A Brief (and Unfair) Account of What Science Is|205
2|6.2 Questions Unanswered—Or a Future Research Agenda|213
2|6.3 The Path Behind and the Road Ahead|215
2|References|226
1|Conclusions|230
1|References|235
1|Index|262