CAHSS Faculty Articles
Rotten Apple Corruption
Department
Department of Justice and Human Services
Publication Date
1-2014
Publication Title
Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics
ISSN
ISBN: 9781452274119
Volume
2
First Page
817
Last Page
819
Abstract
Rotten apple theory is an individualistic perspective of police corruption that views police deviance as the work of isolated individuals (“rotten apples”) who evade detection during the screening and selection process. Once inside a police agency rotten apples prey on...
NSUWorks Citation
Brecher, J. A. (2014). Rotten Apple Corruption. Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics, 2, 817-819. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facarticles/507