PETTY CORRUPTION AND CITIZEN REPORTS

Abstract This article studies the operation of the Federal Regional Court of the 4th Region (TRF4) in the fight against corruption crimes. Judgments produced by the TRF4 criminal courts between 2003 and 2016 underwent text analysis using the dictionary method, seeking to outline the profile of crimes and defendants. Despite the changes in the web accountability institutions, with the outbreak of major federal police operations, technological uses, new legal devices and a high degree of concentration between the agencies, there is a small proportion of grand corruption crime, involving middle and high-ranking bureaucrats and more sophisticated crimes with greater financial value. Crimes involving contraband and petty corruption take up much of the day to day of the judiciary in the south region of the country, at least in the criminal intermediate courts, where the judge appeals decisions coming from specialized and generalist criminal courts.

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The Evolution of Anti-Corruption Legislation in Interwar Yugoslavia (1918–1941)

Tokovi istorije ◽

10.31212/tokovi.2021.3.lec.37-70 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 37-70

Author(s):

Miloš Lecić

Keyword(s):

Legal Framework ◽

Southeastern Europe ◽

New Directions ◽

The Law ◽

Petty Corruption

This article maps the legal framework of the anti-corruption legislation in interwar Yugoslavia, by examining the context and contents of the evolving anti-corruption laws in the period 1918–1941. It examines the intentions of the law-makers and the messaging that they wanted to convey through the legislation in a diachronic perspective, as well as the focus of the anti-corruption efforts towards petty corruption versus grand corruption. It poses questions towards the applicability of existing corruption models in the context of interwar Yugoslavia and proposes new directions for studying persisting structural phenomena shaping corruption practices in Southeastern Europe to this day.

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The Belly of the Police

10.1093/oso/9780190676636.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Julia Hornberger

Keyword(s):

Police Officers ◽

Police Work ◽

Petty Corruption

This chapter adopts a nuanced view of accusation of African police of being corrupt, particularly with regards to what is often called ‘petty corruption’. Entitled ‘The Belly of the Police’, this chapter takes Jean-François Bayart’s metaphor of the stomach seriously and argues that giving food to police officers is a serious form of corruption, as it creates reciprocal obligations that are more meaningful than the exchange of money. Food fundamentally structures police work, determining how officials interact with each other and with citizens.

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Channelling Movement

Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198845676.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 128-169

Author(s):

Luca Scholz

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Conflicts Of Interest ◽

Effective Means ◽

Local Communities ◽

Channel Flows ◽

Political Fragmentation ◽

Traffic Volumes ◽

Petty Corruption

Across the Empire, authorities competed to channel fiscally exploitable movements of goods and people through their dominions. Because it combined high traffic volumes with strong political fragmentation, this chapter focuses on Thuringia. Issuing letters of passage was one of the most effective means of monopolizing the legitimate means of movement. In practice, however, the issuance of passports and similar documents implied a bureaucratic burden and a symbolic subjection that not all were willing to accept. Distinctions between designated and forbidden roads were another hallmark of the early modern roadscape. By criminalizing the use of certain roads, authorities hoped to channel flows to their benefit, but local communities and travellers often had their own views on which roads were licit. The rulers’ deputies on the ground played a key role in a context where conflicts of interest and petty corruption were common, with their position often oscillating between unchecked authority and downright helplessness.

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Public attitude as a determinant of petty corruption in Egypt: a survey study

Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences ◽

10.1108/jhass-07-2021-0124 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Iman Ragaei Kamel ◽

Samir Abd El Wahab ◽

Iman Karam I.M. Ashmawy

Keyword(s):

Binary Logistic Regression ◽

Public Attitude ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Organizational Level ◽

Survey Study ◽

Content Type ◽

Theory Of Crime ◽

Important Input ◽

People’S Attitudes ◽

Petty Corruption

PurposeThe aim of the study is to examine the effect of public attitude on petty corruption.Design/methodology/approachThis is a survey study on customers of a licenses providing authority (N = 390) in Cairo, Egypt. The authors use Akers social learning theory of crime and deviance and take into consideration criticisms of it. The authors control for individual and organizational level determinants that are identified by scholars as influencing people's attitudes toward corruption and which could be known through the authority customers' experiences. Because the dependent variable is binary, whether a person paid a bribe during last transaction with this authority or not, the authors use binary logistic regression.FindingsThe findings indicate that people are more likely to engage in petty corruption when they see it as acceptable, have previous petty corruption experience and when they use a mediator. Also, of those who dealt with that civil service authority during and directly after the 25th of January Revolution (N = 161) 31% reported that they did not engage in petty corruption in comparison to previous years. They referred this to a change in attitude at the time.Originality/valueThe policy implications of the research are important. Social science theories could generate cultural and policy relevant solutions for petty corruption; however, they have not been taken full advantage of. Also, experience-based country-specific corruption survey studies are important input for an effective anti-corruption policy.

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