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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan D. Rosen is assistant professor of criminal justice at Holy Family University. Hanna Samir Kassab, PhD is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. His most recent work is Geographically Small but Not Weak: Comparing the National Security Policies of Israel and Singapore . Hanna Samir Kassab, PhD is an assistant professor of political science at East Carolina University. His most recent work is Geographically Small but Not Weak: Comparing the National Security Policies of Israel and Singapore . Jonathan D. Rosen is assistant professor of criminal justice at Holy Family University. Klappentext For some states in Latin America, corruption is not simply an industry, but rather it is part of the political system. This collection studies the nature of corruption and its recent trends through expert contributions from scholars from the region who have diverse scholarly backgrounds, theoretical orientations, and methodologies. Through case studies of countries throughout the Americas, the contributors analyze the links between corruption and organized crime, the main actors involved in corruption, governmental responses to corruption, and the impact that corruption has on governmental institutions and people’s faith in them. Zusammenfassung This edited collection analyzes trends of corruption in countries throughout the Americas. The contributors examine the main actors involved in corruption as well as the linkages between organized crime and state institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: A Little Lower than the Angels: Problems of Corruption and Obligation: A Conceptual Review Bradford R. McGuinn Chapter Two: Corruption, Violence, and State Fragility in Mexico: An Examination of the Recent Challenges and Opportunities Roberto Zepeda and Jonathan D. Rosen Chapter Three: Guatemala, a Captured State Adriana Beltrán Chapter Four: Corruption in Colombia Fernando Cepeda Ulloa Chapter Five: Corruption in Peru in the Twenty-First Century: A Tsunami of Scandals, A Tsunami of Prosecution Cynthia McClintock Chapter Six: "The Police are Involved in Everything": Corruption and the Corrupt in Bolivia Marten Brienen Chapter Seven: Organized Crime and the State in Brazil Michael Jerome Wolff ...
