Definitions
Noble cause corruption: “breaking fundamental laws, not for personal gain, but for a purpose that appeals to our basic moral sensibilities” (Delattre 2011, p. 211).
Task-related rule-breaking behavior: “police officers breaking laws or formal internal rules in support of performing their lawful task” (Van Halderen and Kolthoff nd).
Introduction
Noble cause corruption is a concept well known in police studies. It refers to rule violations by police officers for “just” causes. Although the concept received scholarly attention for over several decades, the core features of noble cause corruption have remained fairly unclear. This vagueness appears to have hampered theoretical development and empirical assessment of the phenomenon. Task-related rule-breaking behavior is a more refined alternative term which has been recently introduced to...
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van Halderen, R.C., Kolthoff, E.W. (2016). Noble Cause Corruption and Task-Related Rule-Breaking Behavior. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_2510-1
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