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Defining Crimes$
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R.A. Duff and Stuart Green

Print publication date: 2005

Print ISBN-13: 9780199269228

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269228.001.0001

What’s Wrong With Bribery

Chapter:
(p. 143 ) 7 What’s Wrong With Bribery
Source:
Defining Crimes
Author(s):

Stuart P Green (Contributor Webpage)

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269228.003.0007

This chapter uses the facts of Singleton as a reference point for the broader analysis of bribery — what its limits are and why it's morally wrong. It defines bribery as an agreement in which a briber promises to act in furtherance of some interest of the briber. It focuses on questions such as who can be a bribe, who can be a briber, what the bribe must give, and what he must receive in return. It seeks to get at the underlying moral content of bribery, by distinguishing between taking a bribe and offering a bribe.

Keywords:   Singleton, bribery, morality, bribe, briber

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