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UNIVERSAL THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CORRUPTION AND ITS PRACTICAL REFLECTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33244/2617-4154-1(18)-2025-211-225

Keywords:

corruption, kleptocracy, bribery, state capture, abuse of entrusted power, crime, unlawful gain, compliance

Abstract

In the article, the author interprets the criminological and general scientific understanding and research of corruption, which is highlighted around the functioning of social institutions, public service and private interest, which generate negative social deviant behavior, abuse of entrusted powers, and summarizes corruption challenges and ways to counteract this criminal phenomenon.

The author sets the goal of carrying out three analytical steps, namely to investigate the theoretical origin of the phenomenon of corruption and its generally accepted universal legal characteristics, to determine the sources and reasons for its existence and, based on its practical manifestations in foreign countries, to carry out an analysis of the internal factors of this criminal phenomenon to elaborate mechanisms to extinguish it. Today's interest in corruption grew when American and British researchers of political economy tried to thoroughly study corruption in the 60s of the last century. Soon, anthropologists and many American innovators-political scientists joined the fight. As corruption has become increasingly widespread around the world over the past twenty to thirty years, a number of disciplines that study it have moved beyond the realms of economics and law.

Concealing the real drivers and causes of the behavior of corrupt officials, as those who hold positions of responsibility are often governed by a fundamental document, such as a country’s constitution, and by clearly defined responsibilities. There are many types of delegated power relevant to our understanding of corruption, including the power of those who work in the private sector. Those who hold public positions entrusted with power are often governed by a fundamental document, such as a country’s constitution, and by clearly defined responsibilities.

The article argues that kleptocratic leaders in power privatize public assets and the state treasury, capturing the state, because they benefit from the intersection of public and private interests. Just as the distinction between the public and private sectors has become blurred, so too are the differences between public and private sector corruption gradually disappearing. The corrupt seizure of state power and kleptocracy seek to maximize their influence and, at the same time, preserve the ability to steal from the state.

Although there is no "universal" recipe for combating and preventing corruption, it can be concluded that in order to truly develop an effective mechanism for preventing and combating corruption, experts must also look deeper into the underlying conditions that allowed corruption to occur. Understanding this context is crucial for developing a workable and realistic solution that prevents similar problems from recurring and disables the reproduction of corruption crimes in the future.

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2025-08-17

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Maksimentsev, M. G. (2025). UNIVERSAL THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CORRUPTION AND ITS PRACTICAL REFLECTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. Irpin Legal Chronicles, (1(18), 211–225. https://doi.org/10.33244/2617-4154-1(18)-2025-211-225

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Criminal law and сriminology; penal law