Negative perceptions of police professionalism and corruption go hand in hand with low public trust in the police, poor marks on government performance, and citizens’ sense of insecurity.
Laureen Snider, Queen's University, Ontario; Jennifer Quaid, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Jon Frauley, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa, and Steven Bittle, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
If Canada wants to fix its reputation for being weak on corruption, it needs to confront the harms associated with globalization and bring multinational corporations under democratic control.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez.
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The indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez is full of lurid details – hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash stuffed into clothes among them. Will they tank Menendez’s career?
The successful courting of Honduras is the latest example of China’s influence in Latin America.
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Alternatives to violent policing already exist in the daily practices of Nairobi residents who don’t depend on the police for safety.
The European Parliament is at the centre of a corruption case that has already resulted in the indictment of several people, including one of its vice-presidents.
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The ongoing corruption scandal in the EU Parliament casts a harsh light both on the practices of Qatar and on some of the flaws in the EU institutions.
The new book is structured around apartheid profiteers, war profiteers, state capture profiteers, welfare profiteers, failing auditors, conspiring consultants and bad lawyers.
Street vendors ply their trade in Johannesburg.
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Police checkpoints liberally dot Kenya’s highways, but they’re not just about keeping road users safe.
Hakeem Odumosu, former Lagos State Police Commissioner, addressing journalists during a protest in Lagos.
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The 2021 local government elections signals widespread disillusionment with representative democracy that only a sea change in service delivery can fix.
Susan Orr, The College at Brockport, State University of New York and James Johnson, University of Rochester
Voting at home is safe from fraud and disease, but gives up a key advantage of in-person voting at official polling places: a secure, safe environment where everyone can cast their ballot secretly.
In January Airbus agreed to pay nearly 4 billions euros to settle bribery charges. Theories developed by criminology researchers explain how the firm was able to operate so long with such impunity.
Peter Mutharika during his inauguration as the President of Malawi last May. A court has annnulled his election.
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Trump’s backers say he is shielded from removal as no criminal offense took place. But this view may be at odds with the original intent of the impeachment clause.
Numerous officers who served in the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet are caught up in a massive bribery scandal.
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A massive scandal implicating senior US Navy officers highlights what bribery is and how it happens. A law and ethics scholar at the US Naval Academy can’t say much more than that, though.