Наука. Культура. Общество (Jul 2019)

Great Britain: the experience in fighting corruption at the legislative level

  • Svetlana G. Karepova,
  • Sergey V. Nekrassov,
  • Antonina N. Pinchuk

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 2
pp. 26 – 38

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This article is devoted to the legislative experience against corruption in Great Britain. The authors consider the modern transnational context of developing this phenomenon determined by the processes of a developing economic globalization and by the specificity of social reality as well, within which a special topicality is given to develop and use a foreign legal experience in fighting corruption and the experience of Great Britain as the country of an anticorruption «standard-bearer» particularly. The article presents the achievements in a program approach and the British legislative instruments, which regulate the anti-corruption policy on bribery: Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889, Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, 1916, Presentation of the People Act 1983, The Bribery Act 2010 that provide a better reconciliation between the legal and socio-psychological levels against corruption.  

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