Victims of Corrupt Practices: Does Crime Seriousness Affect Bribe Payers’ Decision to Report?

IF 1.4 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Ingilab Shahbazov, Javid Rahimli, Ayshem Balayeva, Zaur Afandiyev
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Despite the considerable amount of literature on self-reported corruption and the salience of anti-corruption narratives among international organizations, little is known about bribe payers’ reporting decisions. Relying on the analysis of a self-report survey among a specific subsample of the victimized population—the university students who were forced to pay a bribe in their interaction with state agencies after extortion in Azerbaijan ( n = 152), this paper attempts to ascertain whether the previously employed crime seriousness construct is relevant in the context of bribery. Results suggest that only 25.7% of bribe payments have been reported to the authorities. As the first study exploring the role of crime seriousness in the context of bribery reporting, we found that neither financial impact nor emotional distress caused by a bribe payment affects reporting behavior. Instead, previous contact with the criminal justice system was the sole predictor of decision-making, indicating for the first time in the literature the applicability of the contact thesis in the context of corruption. The study contributes to victimology as it provides insights into the correlates of decision-making among victims of bribery requests and tests the applicability of crime seriousness in a previously unstudied offence.
腐败行为的受害者:犯罪严重程度是否影响行贿者的举报决定?
尽管有大量文献涉及自我报告的腐败行为以及国际组织中反腐败论述的重要性,但人们对行贿者的报告决定却知之甚少。本文通过对特定受害人群子样本--在阿塞拜疆被勒索后被迫与国家机构互动时行贿的大学生(n = 152)--的自我报告调查分析,试图确定之前使用的犯罪严重性结构是否与贿赂相关。结果表明,只有 25.7% 的贿赂行为被报告给了当局。作为第一项探索犯罪严重性在贿赂举报中的作用的研究,我们发现贿赂造成的经济影响或精神痛苦都不会影响举报行为。相反,以前与刑事司法系统的接触是决策的唯一预测因素,这在文献中首次表明了接触论在腐败背景下的适用性。这项研究为受害者研究做出了贡献,因为它深入揭示了索贿行为受害者做出决策的相关因素,并检验了犯罪严重性在以前未研究过的犯罪中的适用性。
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International Criminal Justice Review
International Criminal Justice Review CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
CiteScore
4.50
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6.20%
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16
期刊介绍: International Criminal Justice Review is a scholarly journal dedicated to presenting system wide trends and problems on crime and justice throughout the world. Articles may focus on a single country or compare issues affecting two or more countries. Both qualitative and quantitative pieces are encouraged, providing they adhere to standards of quality scholarship. Manuscripts may emphasize either contemporary or historical topics. As a peer-reviewed journal, we encourage the submission of articles, research notes, and commentaries that focus on crime and broadly defined justice-related topics in an international and/or comparative context.
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