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Institutional corruption, including police corruption, consist in actions which undermine institutional processes, purposes and persons (qua institutional actors). Moreover, corruptors and the corrupted could have done otherwise and are, therefore, typically (but not necessarily) morally responsible for their acts of corruption.
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This kind of account has ancient origins, e.g., in Aristotle.
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This holds even when people are corrupted through coercion, so long as they could have chosen to resist the coercion. On the other hand, if the action they performed was, for example, drug induced or otherwise not under their control, then they cannot be said to have chosen to perform it in my sense.
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Miller, S. (2016). Police Corruption. In: Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Policing—Philosophical and Ethical Issues. SpringerBriefs in Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46991-1_2
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