The problem of corruption, however described, dates back thousands of years. Professionals working in areas such as development studies, economics and political

This book explores illegal forms of corruption and, more widely, moral and legal forms of corruption. The authors draw on detailed ethnographic accounts of corr

This volume offers a critical anthropological perspective on the hidden continuities between corruption and law. The authors argue that the two opposites, corru

The last twenty years have witnessed an astonishing transformation: the fight against corruption has grown from a handful of local undertakings into a truly glo

This book focuses on the role of norms in the description, explanation, prediction and combat of corruption. It conceives corruption as a ubiquitous problem, co