CHAPTER 3

Whistle-Blowing and Education Management

Raimondo Ingrassia

University of Palermo

Introduction

The term abuse of office is used in this article in the sense of wrongful behavior by a member of an organization. The term also tends to include juridically relevant semantic cases, for example, crimes, offences, misdemeanors, illegalities, and suchlike. Abuse of office constitutes, first of all, anti-moral behavior with subsequent juridical repercussions. The distinction between abuse of office and crime is, in fact, quite flimsy and ambiguous; only in the wake of culturally based, ethical, and political opinions is it becoming possible to outline its boundaries more clearly. In certain circumstances of time and place, it is very likely ...

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