ABSTRACT

Globalisation has opened new avenues to corruption. Corrupt practices are proliferating not only within national borders but across different countries. Despite many national and international anti-corruption bodies and strategies, corruption far from being eradicated. There is an urgent global demand for a better understanding of corruption as a phenomenon and a thorough assessment of the existing regulatory remedies, towards the establishment of more effective (and possibly uniform) anti-corruption measures.

Our previous collection, Corruption in the Global Era (Routledge, 2019), analysed the causes, the sources, and the forms of manifestation of global corruption. An ideal continuation of that volume, this book moves from the analysis of the phenomenon of corruption to that of the regulatory remedies against corruption and for the promotion of integrity.

Corruption, Integrity and the Law provides a unique interdisciplinary assessment of the global anti-corruption legal framework. The collection gathers top experts in different fields of both the academic and the professional world – including criminal law, EU law, international law, competition law, corporate law and ethics. It analyses legal instruments adopted not only at a supranational level but also by different countries, in the attempt of establishing an interdisciplinary and comparative dialogue between theory and practice and between different

legal systems towards a better global promotion of integrity. This book will be of value to researchers, academics and students in the fields of law, criminology, sociology, economics, ethics as well as professionals – especially solicitors, barristers, businessmen and public servants.

part I|14 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|12 pages

The global anti-corruption framework

Lights, shadows and prospects

part II|54 pages

Criminal justice: international and national frameworks

part III|74 pages

The escape from criminal law: deferred prosecutions agreements and financial sanctions

chapter 5|18 pages

Corruption, regulation and the law

The power not to prosecute under the UK Bribery Act 2010

chapter 6|24 pages

Justice deferred is justice denied?

The jury’s out

chapter 7|14 pages

Deferred prosecution agreements and the restorative justice paradigm

Justice restored or corporate cop out?

part IV|39 pages

Information as evidence: whistle-blowing

chapter 9|16 pages

Keep the canaries singing

Are whistle-blowers in Nigeria adequately protected?

chapter 10|21 pages

Vulnerabilities, obstacles and risks in reporting financial crimes

Conundrum of whistle-blowers

part V|58 pages

Information as integrity: bank secrecy and non-financial reporting

part VI|70 pages

Beyond ethical codes: reshaping culture and values

chapter 14|25 pages

The fight against and prevention of corruption

The case of Switzerland and implications for Swiss firms with business activities abroad

chapter 15|18 pages

The practice of anti-corruption and integrity of government

On the moral learning side of the story

chapter 16|25 pages

Ethical integration in EU law

The prevailing normative theories in EGE opinions