Co-offending and bribery: the recruitment of participants to corrupt schemes and the implications for prevention

Mark Button; David William James Shepherd; Dean Blackbourn

doi:10.1057/s41284-018-0139-0

Co-offending and bribery: the recruitment of participants to corrupt schemes and the implications for prevention

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This paper explores the rarely researched areas of co-offending and bribery. Based upon interviews with six persons convicted of bribery-related offences and other cases in the public domain, the paper explores how previously ‘clean’ persons are recruited to corrupt schemes. In doing so, the paper draws on Reason’s resident pathogen theory on safety and uniquely applies it to bribery. The paper also identifies common recruitment techniques used by corruptors and proposes pathogen network analysis as a novel method for enhancing bribery prevention.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	882–900
Number of pages	19
Journal	Security Journal
Volume	31
Issue number	4
Early online date	26 Apr 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/s41284-018-0139-0
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2018

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Bribery
Corruption
Prevention
Resident pathogen theory

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