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This book reveals the extent, types, investigation, enforcement and governance of international corruption. Providing a unique international coverage, it reveals the limits of current anti-corruption strategies and explores the involvement of western democratic states in corruption.

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The Prevention of Corruption: Investigation, Enforcement and Governance Graham Brooks and Dr David Walsh * a broad outline of the project * The project endeavours to explore corruption in the round in terms of its definition (not only dealing with problems of definition in a strictly 'legal' sense -the establishing of which is deemed by the international community to be an integral component in legislation and regulation - but also in relative cultural terms), its prevention through enforcement by appointed bodies and, most uniquely perhaps, the role of the concept of 'state capture'. * critical analysis of its strengths and weaknesses * The project offers a systematic review of corruption covering its definition, extent and amelioration. However, it appears to lack any formal consideration of the connection between transnational or organised crime and corruption which feeds much of the public sector corruption globally the book endeavours to explore. * a recommendation as to whether it merits publication as it stands or with revisions, should be resubmitted after reworking, or should be rejected * I think the book merits publication but would advise some tweaking as suggested below. The most important points to cover in your analysis are: * quality and significance of the project * The project appears to be endeavouring to provide a holistic overview of corruption and the authors should be congratulated on that basis. The consideration of state capture in particular represents a refreshing change of emphasis. Equally, the consideration of whistleblowing as a mode of countering corruption is useful and reflects an increasing trend for the use of whistleblowing in areas such as counter-fraud. It is difficult to discern from the descriptors the extent to which the authors will consider global positions taken in relation to corruption but I would recommend that emerging economies are given sufficient coverage and certainly equal to if not greater than that devoted to established democracies. * structure, organisation and presentation of material * The rationale and proposed contents of the project are well-laid out, clear and concise. I would recommend making Chapter 4 Chapter 6, with Chapter 5 becoming 4 and Chapter 6 becoming 5. The reason for doing so in my view is that it would be more natural a progression to move from historical/formal approaches to countering corruption towards 'new' forms of dissuasion such as whistleblowing. * scope, coverage and breadth of appeal / degree of specialisation * There are a number of texts on corruption and anti-corruption but this proposed project does appear to be breaking into new territory albeit also retreading existing areas such as the nature and extent of corruption per se and the organisations and counter-corruption strategies levelled against it. That degree of crossover, however, is inevitable. * timeliness and likely shelf-life of the research * The Bribery Act has recently been brought into force such that the UK community at least has corruption uppermost in its mind. Equally, there have been renewed calls for action by the UN in relation to its Convention against Corruption. Transparency International has also recently released a report on corruption in the UK within a number of sectors. Corruption is of course always timely and always evolving. However, the nature of the proposed content reflects thought processes which do not evolve dramatically over time as much as it does facts which are prone to more rapid change. * likely readership (in terms of field and level) * I cannot speak to the academic community's appetite for such a text although the content and scope of the project would certainly lend itself to a range of courses concerned directly or indirectly with corruption, bribery, ethics etc such as MBA programmes, Business programmes and Law/Criminology programmes. Moreover, it might, given its practical observations, be a useful text to have in SME larger business organisations' risk management portfolio. In that sense, there would be no reason why the market for the text would not be international (particularly in emerging economies). * recommendations for revision - are these fundamental to the project's success or local points / discretionary matters which might be addressed after the project has been accepted? * My recommendations for revision (above) could be incorporated post-acceptance of the proposal.

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Graham Brooks is Professor in Criminology at Wolverhampton University, School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications, UK. David Walsh is Assistant Head, School of Law and Criminology, University of Derby, UK. Chris Lewis, Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Professor, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth, UK. Hakkyong Kim, Professor, Department of Police Administration, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea.

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