This article provides a survey of the causal factors linking public sector corruption and organized crime. The framework of analysis presented has been tested by the authors in a sample of 45 countries worldwide. Moreover, the piece also includes policy prescriptions, founded on best...

This publication advances a public agency-specific framework for the analysis of the causes of public sector corruption in order to develop public-policy recommendations. This framework is applied to the judiciary due to its strategic importance in the fight against public and private sector...

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of corruption in the public sector in a large number of...