Steve has been doing a great job of catalyzing a conversation about Alice Goffman's book, On the Run. Eugene Volokh has a post up on the topic, and he includes comments from UCLA sociologist Jack Katz (who is a lawyer himself). Katz's thoughts are worth reading here.
This turns out to be an incredibly rich topic, touching on issues of ethics (writ large), professional ethics within different fields, the nature and demands of social activism, professional norms on note destruction (including the demands of IRB's), the challenge of critiques across disciplines, hyperbole, distinct norms of credentialing, intergenerational reputations, and much more.
All of this seems to insure that Goffman's book will see a large number of course adoptions in years to come!