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Integrity Training: The Importance of a Moral Resoning and Rigorous Evaluations

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Another regular “go to” in the anti-corruption tool box of rule of law development professionals is to implement some form of police integrity training.

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Grant, H.B. (2018). Integrity Training: The Importance of a Moral Resoning and Rigorous Evaluations. In: Police Integrity in the Developing World. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00413-2_2

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