Corruption has been around and has been a problem for as long as humans have existed. On any given day today, if you open any newspaper in any country, you can almost find reports of corruption scandals. However, it is only in the past few decades that the international community has fully recognized the damaging and potentially devastating effects of corruption. It is precisely because the issue is so important that the author of this book decided to write this general reading.
Corruption research cannot be neatly defined or classified into a single discipline, and the analysis in this book, although short, draws on the work of anthropology, criminology, economics, history, law, political science, and sociology. The book also examines the important contributions of anti-corruption practitioners from international organizations, non-governmental organizations and other fields.
Corruption research cannot be neatly defined or classified into a single discipline, and the analysis in this book, although short, draws on the work of anthropology, criminology, economics, history, law, political science, and sociology. The book also examines the important contributions of anti-corruption practitioners from international organizations, non-governmental organizations and other fields.
