Transcription of Deviance and Corruption
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Deviance and Corruption9 CHAPTER131 IntroductionDevianceis an action or behavior that violates the generally accepted normsof a group, organization, or society (Adler, 2005). Many societies and orga-nizations policies, practices, and laws are developed from this normativefoundation. Policies (and sometimes laws) are written because entities, rang-ing in size from organizations to countries, codify acts of Deviance . Deviancecan and does occur in all workplaces and throughout all professions. Whenpublic officials violate organizational rules and/or break the law these actsare also called malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance. Yet the scholarlyliterature typically prefers to use the term criminal justice agencies have codes of ethics or standards of con-duct that are taught to recruits and reinforced by veterans of the organiza-tion. One term closely related to Deviance is Corruption , also known as to McCarthy (1996), this practice includes the intentional viola-tion of organizational norms ( , rules and regulations) by public employ-ees for personal material gain (p.)
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