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Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing—Philosophical and Ethical Issues

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Institutional corruption, including police corruption, consist in actions which undermine institutional processes, purposes and persons (qua institutional actors). Moreover, corruptors and the corrupted could have done otherwise and are, therefore, typically (but not necessarily) morally responsible for their acts of corruption.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Material in this section is derived from Miller (2010a, b, Chap. 4, 2011), Miller et al. (2005).

  2. 2.

    This kind of account has ancient origins, e.g., in Aristotle.

  3. 3.

    This holds even when people are corrupted through coercion, so long as they could have chosen to resist the coercion. On the other hand, if the action they performed was, for example, drug induced or otherwise not under their control, then they cannot be said to have chosen to perform it in my sense.

  4. 4.

    Earlier versions of the material in this section and the following one appeared in Miller (1998a, b, 2010a, b, 2014).

  5. 5.

    Earlier versions of the material in this section appeared in Miller (1995) and Miller and Blackler (2005, Chap. 5).

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  2. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  3. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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Miller, S. (2016). Police Corruption. In: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing—Philosophical and Ethical Issues. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46991-1_2

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