Corruption Book

	Biographies of the Authors
	Introduction	1
I	The Nature of the Problem	7
1	Corruption as Counter-culture: Attitudes to Bribery in Local and Global Society	9
2	The Crime of Corruption	35
3	Corruption in Small States: Case Studies in Compromise	49
II	Organized Crime and Corruption	63
4	Corruption and Organized Crime: A Means to an End	65
5	Corruption and Organized Crime	77
III	Corruption in Public and Financial Life	85
6	Every Person Has a Price?	87
7	Double Standards in Public Life: The Case of International Corruption	105
8	Breaking the Billion Dollar Barrier: Learning the Lessons of BNL, Daiwa, Barings and BCCI	113
9	From Regulation to Deregulation to Re-regulation: Rhetorical Quicksand and the Construction of Blame in the US Savings and Loan Crisis	131
10	Private Risk, Trust, Money and Handling the Proceeds of Corruption: Steps towards an Ecology of Financial Systems Design	149
IV	Controlling Corruption	167
11	Taking the Profit out of Corruption: A UK Perspective	169
12	Taking the Profit out of Corruption: A US Perspective	181
13	Taxing the Proceeds of Corruption	195
14	The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: An American Response to Corruption	209
15	The United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as a Civil Remedy	231
V	International Initiatives	253
16	Corruption - A General Review with an Emphasis on the Role of the World Bank	255
17	Extraterritoriality and the Criminalization of Foreign Bribes	285
18	Beating the Shell Game: Bank Secrecy Laws and their Impact on Civil Recovery in International Fraud Actions	303
19	Hong Kong Beyond 1997: The Importance of International Cooperation in the Fight Against Corruption	319
20	The Role of Interpol in Fighting Economic Crime and Corruption	327
21	The Fight Against International Corruption in the European Union	333
22	Corruption: The Council of Europe's Approach	343
	Index	355