Chapter 4: Opening a New Conversation in Organizational Justice: A Conceptual Model of Offender Reintegration in Organizations

A recent New York Times article (Wade, 2010) brought to light the case of a prominent scholar at Harvard University, Dr. Marc Hauser. Dr. Hauser was placed on leave because of evidence gathered by the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard that he had fabricated experimental data in 2002 for a study subsequently published in the journal, Cognition. Times reporter Nicholas Wade wrote in his article, “Some forms of scientific error, like poor record keeping or even mistaken results, are forgivable, but fabrication of data, if such a change were to be proved against Dr. Hauser, is usually followed by expulsion from the scientific community.” Wade went on to note that, “Dr. Hauser’s case is unusual however because of his substantial contributions to the fields of animal cognition and the basis of morality.” Wade suggested further that there may be the possibility of “redemption.” As affirmed by the editor of the journal Cognition, Dr. Gerry Altman, “If he were to give a full and frank account of the errors he made, then the process can start repatriating him into the community in some form.”