The Nexus of Judiciary Power and Corruption in Albania: Strategies of Defiance and Evasions

IF 1.1 Q3 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Journal of Developing Societies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI:10.1177/0169796X231179404

Islam Jusufi

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Abstract

The article aims to study the actions of the network of elite members of a society in diverting financial flows. It is about the way the judiciary elite of a postcommunist and transitional society of Albania has practiced corruption. Prior and during the vetting or reevaluation process of the judges and prosecutors for integrity, ethics, and competence launched in 2017, it has uncovered the scale and luxury involved in the corruptive practices of judges and prosecutors. More than half of reevaluated judges and prosecutors have been dismissed due to past corruptive behavior. The vetting process has shown that over the last three decades of the transition history of Albania, a particular corruption scheme has emerged, catering to the needs of the corrupt judges and prosecutors. Based on fieldwork, this article examines the stories of the corruptive practices by judges and prosecutors of Albania. The article examines the complex mix of legal and illegal dynamics that were combined to produce defiance regime for the corruption within the judiciary of Albania. The article aims to conceptualize how this corruption regime was constructed and maintained. It also examines how interventions undertaken in fighting the corruption failed to deal with the defiance phenomenon within the Albanian judiciary.

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本文旨在研究社会精英成员网络在转移资金流动方面的作用。这是关于阿尔巴尼亚后共产主义和过渡社会的司法精英实施腐败的方式。在2017年启动的对法官和检察官诚信、道德和能力的审查或重新评估过程之前和期间，它发现了法官和检察官腐败行为的规模和奢侈。超过一半的重新评估的法官和检察官因过去的腐败行为而被解雇。审查过程表明，在阿尔巴尼亚过去三十年的过渡历史中，出现了一个特殊的腐败计划，以满足腐败法官和检察官的需求。本文在实地调查的基础上，考察了阿尔巴尼亚法官和检察官的腐败行为。这篇文章考察了法律和非法动态的复杂组合，这些动态结合在一起，产生了对阿尔巴尼亚司法部门腐败的蔑视制度。这篇文章旨在对这种腐败制度是如何构建和维持的概念化。它还审查了在打击腐败方面采取的干预措施如何未能解决阿尔巴尼亚司法部门内部的蔑视现象。

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Journal of Developing Societies DEVELOPMENT STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Developing Societies is a refereed international journal on development and social change in all societies. JDS provides an interdisciplinary forum for the publication of theoretical perspectives, research findings, case studies, policy analyses and normative critiques on the issues, problems and policies associated with both mainstream and alternative approaches to development. The scope of the journal is not limited to articles on the Third World or the Global South, rather it encompasses articles on development and change in the "developed" as well as "developing" societies of the world. The journal seeks to represent the full range of diverse theoretical and ideological viewpoints on development that exist in the contemporary international community.