DP1
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/151#DP1
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP1
Decision question
Should the NSPE Board of Ethical Review assert Code of Ethics jurisdiction over Engineer A's and Engineer B's personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty, or limit Code jurisdiction to conduct directly related to the performance of engineering services?
Focus
Whether personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty — such as theft, fraudulent check-writing, or fraudulent tax returns — falls within the NSPE Code of Ethics jurisdiction, requiring the Board to resolve the previously reserved question from Cases 62-14 and 68-7 and affirm that such conduct violates the Code regardless of whether it occurred within engineering practice.
Option1
Affirm that the Code of Ethics reaches personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — regardless of nexus to engineering services — grounding jurisdiction in the Code's foundational public-confidence purpose and the whole-person character integrity standard, conditioned on prior legal adjudication.
Option2
Decline to assert Code jurisdiction over personal criminal conduct unrelated to the delivery of engineering services, treating the Code's honesty provisions as applicable only to professional dealings with clients, employers, and the public in an engineering capacity.
Option3
Limit Code jurisdiction to cases where the engineer's professional identity was publicly linked to the criminal conviction — as with Engineer B's newspaper coverage — treating public reputational harm to the profession as the necessary trigger for disciplinary reach beyond engineering services.
Role
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "DP1" ;
proeth:decisionPointId "DP1" ;
proeth:decisionQuestion "Should the NSPE Board of Ethical Review assert Code of Ethics jurisdiction over Engineer A's and Engineer B's personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty, or limit Code jurisdiction to conduct directly related to the performance of engineering services?" ;
proeth:focus "Whether personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty — such as theft, fraudulent check-writing, or fraudulent tax returns — falls within the NSPE Code of Ethics jurisdiction, requiring the Board to resolve the previously reserved question from Cases 62-14 and 68-7 and affirm that such conduct violates the Code regardless of whether it occurred within engineering practice." ;
proeth:option1 "Affirm that the Code of Ethics reaches personal criminal misconduct involving dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — regardless of nexus to engineering services — grounding jurisdiction in the Code's foundational public-confidence purpose and the whole-person character integrity standard, conditioned on prior legal adjudication." ;
proeth:option2 "Decline to assert Code jurisdiction over personal criminal conduct unrelated to the delivery of engineering services, treating the Code's honesty provisions as applicable only to professional dealings with clients, employers, and the public in an engineering capacity." ;
proeth:option3 "Limit Code jurisdiction to cases where the engineer's professional identity was publicly linked to the criminal conviction — as with Engineer B's newspaper coverage — treating public reputational harm to the profession as the necessary trigger for disciplinary reach beyond engineering services." ;
proeth:roleLabel "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:39:05.796518"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 151 Extraction" .
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2026-03-02T10:39:05.796518
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ProEthica Case 151 Extraction