NCJ Number
206402
Editor(s)
Gorazd Mesko
Date Published
2000
Length
239 pages
Annotation
These 17 papers presented at the conference entitled "Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium" (Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 17-18, 1999) discuss various aspects of corruption in the public and private spheres of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Abstract
One paper discusses the problems related to internal policing in Slovenia and the control of corruptive behaviors by police officers and the personnel of the Ministry of the Interior. This is followed by a paper on the extent of corruption among the security personnel in Central and Eastern European states in transition. Another paper provides an overview of the nature of corruption in the public sector, and a conference representative from Macedonia discusses the prevention of corruption under the draft of the Macedonian law on the prevention of corruption. A paper addresses the importance of defining "corruption" and three types of definitions of "corruption;" and the ways and mechanisms for controlling financial transactions are the topic of discussion in a paper on preventing the flow of illegally obtained money. One of the papers considers problems in research on corruption. A representative of Slovenia's Ministry of the Interior discusses the current state of corruption in Slovenia, followed by a paper on the "evil" of corruption and the scope of its domain. Three papers focus on the results of public opinion polls on corruption in Estonia, various concepts of corruption and the main findings from a previous conference on corruption (1998), and the ways and means to fight corruption. Remaining papers address the links between corruption and organized crime; the threat of Russian organized crime to democratic reforms in the former Soviet Union as well as to other nations; types of corruption; and the findings of a public opinion poll on corruption in the Czech Republic. 80 references