NCJ Number
212025
Journal
European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Dated: 2005 Pages: 77-95
Editor(s)
Rosemary Barberet
Date Published
2005
Length
19 pages
Annotation
This article examines the political and cultural aspects of combining different models and approaches of anti-corruption activities that come from both the West and the East on the implementation of an anti-corruption policy in Lithuania.
Abstract
Lithuania still suffers from the problem of corruption, as well as other post-communist states. Surveys conducted in Lithuania over recent years show the public’s concern about the level of corruption. What is clear from both international and domestic sources concerning the corruption situation in Lithuania is that the new democratic state needs an effective anti-corruption policy. The first actions taken by Lithuania in shaping an anti-corruption policy were oriented towards reinforcing the law enforcement system. Lithuania attempts to combine different models of anti-corruption activities that come from both the West (the North American and the West European experience) and from the East (Hong Kong’s anti-corruption practice). This article focuses on the political and cultural aspects of these approaches, as well as on the problems that lead Lithuanian law enforcement bodies in their attempts to implement anti-corruption policy in the Lithuanian society. References