Do not look the other way: a roundtable discussion of the effectiveness of anti-corruption measures in European countries.

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

Ukrainian efforts to fight corruption have always been limited (Chornovil, 2015). Lack of effective control and corrupt judiciary create ‘on-paper’ anti-corruption efforts. Since 2014, as a result of international pressure, Ukraine completed a series of anti-corruption reforms to establish an anti-corruption infrastructure to effectively prevent, protect, prosecute, and where applicable confiscate, the corruption-related assets. While on paper these institutions present a fully-formed, anti-corruption mechanism, measuring the effectiveness of these institutions remains to be problematic. A better dialogue between practitioners and data analysts is needed to, firstly, understand the effectiveness of anti-corruption system within Ukraine and, secondly, to consider the learnings from Ukraine in a broader European context. This roundtable discusses the issues of contextualisation of corruption control (Lord, et all, 2021), trend to ‘individualise’ corruption problem ( Campbell and Lord, 2021) and questions what further input is important for productive European dialogue on corruption control. [This presentation is part of the study supported by The British Academy Grant].

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / Corruption (EUROC)

Chair

• Oleksii Serdiuk, Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, Ukraine/ Head of Research Laboratory for Psychological Support of Law Enforcement

Discussants

• Iryna Soldatenko, Karazin Kharkiv National University

• Anna Markovska, PIER/ Anglia Ruskin University