Reseña: El whistleblowing; una herramienta jurídica para combatir la corrupción en Colombia

Abstract

The term "Whistleblower" is a composition of the terms "blow & whistle" which translated into English would be blow and whistle respectively. The term comes from the United States, and without knowing exactly what its origin was, it is suspected that it was coined on American football fields, where "a referee, who is inside the field of play blows the whistle when a foul is committed so that the action stops". Other authors relate it to the caricature of "the plump English policeman running after the thief and blowing his whistle after the agonised scream of a lady".