Exhibit 1253 ยท Scholarly essay (magazine)
Police corruption: apples, barrels and orchards (Maurice Punch), Criminal Justice Matters
The defensive metaphor of the 'bad apples' conveys an image of a few reprehensible individuals who, if removed, will no longer contaminate the otherwise healthy apples.
Essay by a police-corruption scholar contrasting the 'bad apples' explanation with organizational and system-level accounts.
- Source
- Maurice Punch, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (Criminal Justice Matters, edition 79)
- Date
- Web copy dated 26 July 2016
- Quoted from
- Body text, paragraph beginning 'Whole parts of a force could become routinely and systemically corrupt.'
- Grade
- Reported
- Document
- https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/node/3297
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Magazine essay, not the peer-reviewed article (Punch 2003, 'Rotten orchards', Policing and Society 13(2) 171-196, not read). The web page gives edition 'cjm 79' and a web date of 26 July 2016; the issue year was not read. Quote uses straight single quotes in place of the source's curly ones. Same essay: 'Typically this is group behaviour and not individual.' and 'Behind every bent cop, then, there are always others, including supervisors, who either took part or knew about it.'