Crime, Development and Corruption: Cultural Dynamic - Global Challenge?

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Corruption; Crime; Definition of corruption; State corruption; Market model for corruption; Corruption and development; Criminal Procedure; Political Science; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2102; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99319681702601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=INK&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=INK&query=any,contains,Organized%20Crime,%20Corruption,%20and%20Crime%20Prevention&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This chapter’s argument is that accepting opportunities for corruption, and the culturally-specific nature of the relationships which evolve as a consequence of realising such opportunity, can be a natural consequence of socio-economic development (as modernisation), then an interpretation of corruption in terms of its commercial viability rather than public morality is more helpful when generating culturally-sensitive control strategies, and interpreting the social and economic consequences of corruption.