RT Article
T1 Anti-corruption agencies: between empowerment and irrelevance
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 53
IS 1
SP 5
OP 22
A1 De Sousa, Luís 1973-
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1881377431
AB The anti-corruption activity of the 1990s is characterized by the rise of new players, such as specialized anti-corruption bodies. Anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) are public bodies of a durable nature, with a specific mission to fight corruption and reducing the opportunity structures propitious for its occurrence in society through preventive and/or repressive measures. Independently of their format and powers, ACAs encounter various constraints to their mandate, which explains the meagre results obtained by some of them. This introductory paper tries to understand the rise, future, and implications of this new kind of "integrity warrior" and to locate them in the evolving doctrine of corruption control. The objective of this edited volume is to re-launch the debate on ACAs as the most innovative feature of the anti-corruption movement of the last two decades.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 21-22
K1 Civil Society Actor
K1 Financial Crime
K1 Institutional Failure
K1 Southern African Development Community
K1 Transparency International
DO 10.1007/s10611-009-9211-3