The Treatment of People with Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: The Example of Oneida County, New York

This publication is two-fold: an executive summary and the report itself. The executive summary provides a general overview of the larger report, on the criminalization of the mentally ill. It begins by summarizing three case studies from the report that concern the intersection of mental health issues and the criminal justice system in Oneida County in New York State. It then provides a brief historical overview of mental health issues and the criminal justice system before going on to discuss the current best practices in addressing the criminalization of the mentally ill, including law-enforcement mechanisms, mental health courts, and reintegration programs. Next, the paper identifies the shortcomings of these practices and the lack of organizational and financial capacity that hobbles concerned stakeholders from effectively tackling the issue. The paper concludes by proposing a general program for immediate action on local and national scales

Portraying the nature of corruption: Using an explorative case-study design

What is the nature of corruption in Western democracies? To answer this research question, the authors study 10 Dutch corruption cases in depth, looking at confidential criminal files. The cases allow them to sketch a general profile of a corruption case. The authors offer nine propositions to portray the nature of corruption. They conclude that corruption usually takes place within enduring relationships, that the process of becoming corrupt can be characterized as a slippery slope, and that important motives for corruption, aside from material gain, include friendship or love, status, and the desire to impress others. The explorative multiple case study methodology helps to expand our understanding of the way in which officials become corrupt. © 2008 The American Society for Public Administration

"Feed from the Service": Corruption and Coercion in the State-University Relations in Central Eurasia

Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the industries, most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortions, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region’s media and addressed in few scholarly works. This paper considers corruption in higher education as a product of interrelations between the government and academia. A substantial block of literature considers excessive corruption as an indicator of a weak state. In contrast to standard interpretations, this paper argues that in non-democratic societies corruption is used on a systematic basis as a mechanism of direct and indirect administrative control over higher education institutions. Informal approval of corrupt activities in exchange for loyalty and compliance with the regime may be used in the countries of Central Eurasia for the purposes of political indoctrination. This paper presents the concept of corruption and coercion in the state-university relations in Central Eurasia and outlines the model which incorporates this concept and the “feed from the service” approach. It presents implications of this model for the state-university relations and the national educational systems in Central Eurasia in general and offers some suggestions on curbing corruption

Prosecution as Corruption Control: Paradigms of Public Integrity in Context

The effort of prosecutors to reduce corruption nationwide is part of a twentieth century paradigm that is being replaced by a new perspective on public integrity. The organizational context of this traditional response to corruption--including prosecution--provides an explanation for an effort that has not reduced corruption substantially, but has had a deleterious effect on the quality of public goods and services. Organizational factors, including the influence of bureaucratic structure and professionalized public integrity, will be put forward in this article to explain the intensity of the twentieth century paradigm, the perceived need to sustain the paradigm over a long period of time, and its influence on public administration

La corrupción y el control de la corrupción como impedimentos para la competitividad económica

El bien documentado argumento de que un riguroso control de la corrupción puede reducir tanto el desempeño de los organismos públicos como la competitividad pública ha conducido a la noción de que es necesario tolerar ¿cierta¿ corrupción en beneficio del desarrollo económico y el desempeño gubernamental. Si bien el argumento es sostenible, la idea que considera tolerables ciertos niveles de corrupción constituye un malentendido. ¿De qué manera, entonces, enfocar la protección de la integridad pública sin sacrificar los intereses públicos y privados? Este análisis considera, primero, los costos de la corrupción que podría denominarse ¿útil¿ o ¿necesaria¿; segundo, los costos de un control estricto de la corrupción; tercero, el particular síndrome de corrupción al que se enfrenta México, con sus implicaciones para una política de integridad y, cuarto, la forma en que las redes públicas de integridad pueden reducir los costos de la corrupción para la competitividad y evitar, asimismo, los de un excesivo control de aquélla

Legal but Corrupt: A New Perspective on Public Ethics

Labeling a person, institution or particular behavior as corrupt signals both political and moral disapproval and, in a functioning democracy, should stimulate inquiry, discussion, and, if the charge is well-founded, reform. This book argues...that the political community and scholars alike have underestimated the extent of corruption in the United States and elsewhere and thus, awareness of wrong-doing is limited and discussion of necessary reform is stunted. In fact, there is a class of behaviors and institutions that are legal, but corrupt. They are accepted as legitimate by statute and practice, but they inflict very real social, economic, and political damage. This book explains why it is important to identify legally accepted corruption and provides a series of examples of corruption using this perspective.https://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1022/thumbnail.jp