Crime and Culture: Breaking New Ground in Corruption Research
Crime and Culture: Breaking New Ground in Corruption Research

Summary/Abstract: Abstract: As indicated in its original subtitle "Crime as a Cultural Problem –The Rele-vance of Perceptions of Corruption to Crime Prevention. A Comparative Cultural Study in the EU-Accession States Bulgaria and Romania, the EU-Candidate States Turkey and Croatia and the EU-States Germany, Greece and United Kingdom", the research project Crime and Culture aims to develop means to optimise corruption pre-vention in the EU. The urgency of such a project is reflected in the fact that corruption holds the potential to retard seriously the process of the Community's enlargement and integration, even to the extent of threatening the very core of its concept of social order. Before going on with the presentation of research findings based on the executive summary on the project's first empirical research phase submitted by each Country Study Group, the article gives a short description of the research project, its objectives and methodology.

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