Understanding Bribery

Deborah Hellman;

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Understanding Bribery

Deborah Hellman

PUBLISHER

Palgrave Macmillan

DATE

2019

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Deborah Hellman

Citation

Deborah Hellman, Understanding Bribery, in Larry Alexander & Kimberly Kessler Ferzan The Palgrave Handbook of Applied Ethics and the Criminal Law, Palgrave Macmillan, 147-163 (2019).

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