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dc.contributor.authorTankebe, Justice
dc.contributor.authorKarstedt, Susanne
dc.contributor.authorAdu-Poku, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-08T01:40:40Z
dc.date.available2019-06-08T01:40:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1057-5677
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1057567718799827
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/384771
dc.description.abstractBesides its multiple harms, corruption undermines the rule of law and impedes the effective functioning of criminal justice institutions. It involves both elites in bending rules and laws as well as police at the bottom of the hierarchy asking for bribes. We analyze corruption intentions within the framework of Brennan and Pettit’s “economy of esteem,” using three main conceptual frameworks: attachment to kinship groups, materialistic orientations, and deterrence. We draw on data from a survey of 530 university students in Ghana to examine predictors of corruption intentions of prospective elites. Our prospective elites were more inclined to resort to influence peddling rather than to pay bribes directly. We find that attitudinal patterns indicative of esteem predict intentions to engage in corrupt exchanges across different agencies and contexts—police, procurement for government, and abuse of power—as well as different types of action, whether bribe payment or nepotism. In contrast, citizenly pride (and self-esteem) motivates integrity across all types of corrupt exchange. Deterrence, in terms of certainty, had a more consistently negative impact on intentions to engage in nepotism than in bribe paying and acceptance, with public procurement being the exception; no effect was found for stigma, and only police nepotism was an exception to the otherwise non-significant effects of severity.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom168
dc.relation.ispartofpageto186
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalINTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW
dc.relation.ispartofvolume29
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInternational and comparative law
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4803
dc.titleCorruption Intentions Among Prospective Elites in Ghana: An Economy of Esteem
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2019, The Authors, Justice Tankebe et al, Corruption Intentions Among Prospective Elites in Ghana: An Economy of Esteem, International Criminal Justice Review, Vol. Vol. 29(2) 168-186, 2019. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.
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gro.griffith.authorKarstedt, Susanne


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