Topics of international comparison of criminal-law regulation of corruption

RESUME: The purpose of my thesis is to analyse criminal law regulation of corruption. The reason for my research is my long term interest in criminal law, criminology and specifically in compliance and anti-bribery matters. The thesis is composed of fourteen chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of criminal law regulation of corruption and related fields. Chapter One and Two are introductory and define basic terminology used in the thesis and introduce organisations and laws dealing with corruption worldwide. Chapter Three briefly describes the origins and growth of corruption as a phenomenon in human society and brings a closer look at the connection of growth of corruption and implementation of criminal law procedures as incorporated through different conventions and international law enforcement organisations as well as NGOs. Following is given overview of the global situation of criminal law regulation and its unification and tools that are mostly used and organisations taking most initiative. The next chapter is subdivided into different parts each dealing with different aspect of criminal law regulation world-wide. In Chapter six I take a closer look at FCPA, legal act which I find has a leading trend in the battle against corruption today, worldwide. I also include my original..