Універсальне теоретичне розуміння корупції та її практична рефлексія в зарубіжних країнах

Abstract

In the article, the author interprets the criminological and general scientific understanding and research of corruption, which is highlighted around the functioning of social institutions, public service and private interest, which generate negative social deviant behavior, abuse of entrusted powers, and summarizes corruption challenges and ways to counteract this criminal phenomenon. The author sets the goal of carrying out three analytical steps, namely to investigate the theoretical origin of the phenomenon of corruption and its generally accepted universal legal characteristics, to determine the sources and reasons for its existence and, based on its practical manifestations in foreign countries, to carry out an analysis of the internal factors of this criminal phenomenon to elaborate mechanisms to extinguish it. Today's interest in corruption grew when American and British researchers of political economy tried to thoroughly study corruption in the 60s of the last century. Soon, anthropologists and many American innovators-political scientists joined the fight. As corruption has become increasingly widespread around the world over the past twenty to thirty years, a number of disciplines that study it have moved beyond the realms of economics and law.