CORRUPTION IN SERBIA AND IN SURROUNDINGS

Jelena Ivanovic, Marko Teslic

Abstract


Corruption is connected to society since its beginnings, and struggle against it can be seen not only through moral categories but also through positive legislative regulations. Corruptions as a term and its constitutive elements have not yet been defined precisely in the Republic of Serbia. The definition used in the RS is the one given by Law on fight against corruption. The term “corruption” in broader legal sense, relates to all the forms of abuse of power and social positions done out of greed (bribery, abuse of official and social position, giving and using privileges, counerfavours, taking provisions and presents), and in narrower sense giving and taking bribery. In any case, giving and taking bribery dominates all the criminal acts of corruption. Bribery is permanently present in our citizens’ consciousness as they think that corruption is mostly present in health care, Judicial system, and police force, while “politicians and political parties stand apart of all the categories”. Comparative practice in the world understands corruption as abuse of power for private gain. This concept is used in Global programme of the United Nations against corruption and is accepted in European Union practice. How broad this problem is in Serbia one can see from the fact that Serbia was in the 80th place out of 176 countries in 2012.


Keywords


politics, National Strategy, Agency for fighting against corruption, criminal Law, corruption, bribery, moral, nepotism, cronyism, conflict of interest, public functions

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