Introduction
Professor Laura S. Underkuffler has noted that: “Corruption is an explicitly moral notion; corruption describes, in general parlance, a powerful all-consuming evil.” She goes on to say that this idea, although often unarticulated, permeates both popular and technical discussions of the subject. Furthermore, because of the power of this idea, any approach to corruption that fails to reckon with its moral aspect will be both descriptively and programmatically inadequate.”Footnote 1
Ensuring that an understanding of corruption needs to include a moral dimension takes the issue of corruption beyond the confines of the many laws that relate to the subject. Legal definitions often fail to capture the full dimensions of corruption. This is also the case when using the word bribery which is frequently treated as a synonym for corruption. Transparency International (TI), a global, nongovernmental, anti-corruption organization, defines corruption broadly as “the abuse of entrusted...
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Laura Underkuffler, J. DuPratt White Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School – chapter 2 in Corruption, Global Security, and World Order (2009, Brookings), edited by Robert I Rotberg.
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Newsweek International, November 14, 1994, Money Talks cover story by Michael Elliot, as quoted in Waging War on Corruption – Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power, by Frank Vogl, Rowman & Littlefield, updated, 2016.
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Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism, by professor Louise Shelley (2014 Cambridge University Press)
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National Money Laundering Risk Assessment 2015, United States Department of the Treasury. https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/terrorist-illicit-finance/Documents/National%20Money%20Laundering%20Risk%20Assessment%20%E2%80%93%2006-12-2015.pdf (Accessed 9 January 2017).
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Johnston (2014).
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Vogl, F. (2017). Global Corruption. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_132-1
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