Fighting Grand Corruption
Fighting Grand Corruption
Grand corruption-systemic, large-scale, and top-down misappropriation of public resources for private gain-remains a pervasive problem around the world. It affects the ability of governments to educate, feed, and care for their people. It undermines human rights, perpetuates impunity, and erodes trust in government and the judiciary. It strengthens disgruntlement, authoritarianism, and insurgency. Corruption, however, is not a static force. In this work, Naomi Roht-Arriaza explores how corruption has changed, and how new anti-corruption thinking, especially in Latin America, centers human rights, victims' access to justice, and reparations. Roht-Arriaza shows how activists have used outside pressure and support for local actors where state institutions have been captured and foregrounds anti-corruption considerations in dealing with transitional justice and atrocity crimes. Written with engaging stories and examples, this book will appeal to lawyers, scholars of Latin America, and anyone else interested in fighting kleptocrats with the goal of reclaiming the common good.
- Will appeal to a wider audience through engaging and easy to follow material
- Combines international, regional and national laws, allowing the reader to see how they interact and influence each other
- Examines concrete ways in which anti-corruption and human rights work can strengthen each other
Product details
April 2025Hardback
9781009550581
284 pages
229 × 152 × 18 mm
0.576kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Part I. Setting the Stage: International and Transnational Law and Policies:
- 1. The grand corruption problem
- 2. Treaty law on corruption and on human rights: convergence and gaps
- 3. Transnational approaches I: sizing up Guatemala's CICIG
- 4. Transnational approaches II: sanctions, standards and third-party states
- Part II. Putting Victims at the Center of Anti-Corruption Work:
- 5. Fraud on the river: victim access to corruption proceedings
- 6. Giving it back: transnational asset recovery and repurposing
- 7. Reparations for victims of grand corruption: applying a human rights framework
- Part III. A Corruption Lens on Human Rights-Related Issues:
- 8. Transitions, transitional justice and grand corruption
- 9. A corruption lens on atrocity crimes: seeing behind the slaughter
- 10. Conclusions: where to, and what to watch out for?
