RT Article
T1 The abuse of entrusted power for private gain: meaning, nature and theoretical evolution
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 74
IS 4
SP 433
OP 455
A1 Pozsgai-Alvarez, Joseph
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1826875905
AB Although the study of corruption has received increasing attention over the past decades, the theoretical progress of its earlier years has been increasingly relegated to a passive comment, resulting in an underdeveloped field as a whole. To address this issue, this paper explicitly adopts a prevalent definition of corruption - i.e. the abuse of entrusted power for private gain - and explores its meaning, nature, and theoretical evolution from the earliest human bands to the present era. The result is an examination of corruption’s constitutive elements and the way they open the door for a historical account based on the social evolution of political agency and the development of increasingly specialized ethical duties. The arguments presented here aim to provide a road map for future comparative historical research on the subject, and the potential identification of social patterns which sustain corruption tolerance today.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 452-455
K1 Compliance
K1 Corruption
K1 Human Agency
K1 Integrity
K1 Power
DO 10.1007/s10611-020-09903-4