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Corruption as Disloyalty?

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In order to assess the legitimacy of criminalising corruption, it is necessary, first, to develop a concept of corruption which adequately captures the different behaviours that can plausibly be considered corrupt. And second, it is necessary to be clear not only about what harm corruption produces but also what its moral wrong consists in, and what is the degree of its moral wrong according to the moral typology of each kind of corrupt conduct. These considerations provide a matrix of analysis that is useful both to control the plausibility of existing criminal law that punishes corruption and to propose reforms of the law which are consistent with the moral convictions that actually exist in society regarding this problem.

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    Green (note 2), p. 203.

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    U. Kindhäuser, in: Kindhäuser/Neumann/Paeffgen (eds.), Strafgesetzbuch, 3rd ed. 2010 (Nomos, Baden-Baden), § 266/1, 19.

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    S. P. Wittig, Wirtschaftsstrafrecht, 2011 (Beck, München), pp. 236-283; for an overview in English, see F. Zimmermann’s national report in this volume.

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    S. Donna (note 8).

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    See F. Saliger, Das Unrecht der Korruption, in: Albrecht et al. (eds.), Festschrift für Walter Kargl, 2015 (Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin), p. 496-497.

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    S. T. Zimmermann, Korruption und Gubernation, in: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 124 (2012), 1027; L. Greco, Annäherungen an eine Theorie der Korruption, in: Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht 2016, 252-253.

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    See Garzón Valdés (note 13), 45-46.

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    See Saliger (note 14), pp. 493-505.

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    See, for example, U. Kindhäuser, Rechtstreue als Schuldkategorie, in: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft 107 (1995), 701-733.

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    See for example M. Pawlik, Das Unrecht des Bürgers, 2012 (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen), pp. 82-156.

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    See M. Philips, Bribery, in: Ethics 94 (1984), 621-636; Garzón Valdés (note 13), 43-44; Green (note 2), pp. 204-205.

  21. 21.

    See Green (note 2), p. 203.

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Pérez Barberá, G. (2017). Corruption as Disloyalty?. In: Zimmermann, F. (eds) Criminal Liability of Political Decision-Makers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52051-3_17

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