The criminalisation of corruption and organised crime in a comparative perspective: assessing drivers and outcomes

Abstract

Last decades brought an unprecedented variety of judicial investigations against grand corruption scandals and organised crime activities in almost all the countries around the world. However, pathways of criminalisation of these phenomena vary considerably both across countries and over time. To explore and explain this variation, in different political systems accurately, we need to expand our knowledge beyond legal systems and state-capacity paradigms. While corruption and organised crime studies dedicate a lot of attention to recommendations on how to design policies to counter these phenomena and provide a ‘cure’, emerging scholarship suggests the importance of the ‘patient’, i.e. of those organisational and contextual factors which shape the strategic response of political and institutional actors against corruption and organised crime. The panel addresses the topic and is constituted by theoretical and empirical studies that assess drivers and outcomes of criminalisation of corruption and organised crime from within and outside Europe.

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