DP4
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/151#DP4
Properties
Instance of
Decision Point Id
DP4
Decision question
Should the NSPE Board of Ethical Review articulate an explicit dishonesty-nexus threshold criterion limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to convictions for offenses involving dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude, or should the Board issue a general ruling that personal misconduct violates the Code without specifying a limiting principle?
Focus
Whether the NSPE Board of Ethical Review should establish a principled, administrable threshold specifying that Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct attaches only to criminal convictions for offenses whose essential element is dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — thereby reconciling the expansive interpretation canon with the professional society disciplinary scope limitation — or whether the Board's general ruling in Case 72-6 is sufficient without a limiting principle.
Option1
Articulate an explicit standard limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to criminal convictions for offenses whose essential element is dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — consistent with state engineering registration law standards — thereby providing an administrable boundary that honors both the expansive public-confidence purpose and the judiciousness caveat.
Option2
Rule that personal misconduct of the types described violates the Code without articulating a specific limiting principle, leaving the precise threshold for future cases to be determined on a fact-specific basis as the Board's judiciousness caveat implies — trusting that the two present cases provide sufficient guidance by example.
Option3
Adopt a bright-line rule limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to felony convictions — regardless of whether the offense involves dishonesty — on the ground that the felony/misdemeanor distinction provides a clear, legally established threshold that avoids the professional society substituting its own moral gradations for those of the criminal law.
Role
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
TTL
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proeth:decisionQuestion "Should the NSPE Board of Ethical Review articulate an explicit dishonesty-nexus threshold criterion limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to convictions for offenses involving dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude, or should the Board issue a general ruling that personal misconduct violates the Code without specifying a limiting principle?" ;
proeth:focus "Whether the NSPE Board of Ethical Review should establish a principled, administrable threshold specifying that Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct attaches only to criminal convictions for offenses whose essential element is dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — thereby reconciling the expansive interpretation canon with the professional society disciplinary scope limitation — or whether the Board's general ruling in Case 72-6 is sufficient without a limiting principle." ;
proeth:option1 "Articulate an explicit standard limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to criminal convictions for offenses whose essential element is dishonesty, fraud, or moral turpitude — consistent with state engineering registration law standards — thereby providing an administrable boundary that honors both the expansive public-confidence purpose and the judiciousness caveat." ;
proeth:option2 "Rule that personal misconduct of the types described violates the Code without articulating a specific limiting principle, leaving the precise threshold for future cases to be determined on a fact-specific basis as the Board's judiciousness caveat implies — trusting that the two present cases provide sufficient guidance by example." ;
proeth:option3 "Adopt a bright-line rule limiting Code jurisdiction over personal misconduct to felony convictions — regardless of whether the offense involves dishonesty — on the ground that the felony/misdemeanor distinction provides a clear, legally established threshold that avoids the professional society substituting its own moral gradations for those of the criminal law." ;
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