Was ist Korruption?

In our society, corruption occurs in various forms and in different areas. When addressing the question of what corruption is, one will find many answers in scientific research. This book provides an overview of the most important answers in a comprehensible fashion and is ordered according to the disciplines which deal with this topic: economics, business studies/management science, criminal law, civil law, historical science, administrative science, sports science, political science, sociology, psychology and criminology. However, a discipline-specific definition of corruption is not sufficient. A transdisciplinary analysis is imperative, in particular when it comes to preventing and curbing corruption, establishing societal structures and relationships that are free of corruption, and meeting new challenges that arise in the context of digitalisation. This book shows relationships between the discipline-specific approaches. It links the variety of discipline-specific analyses of corruption issues with the multifaceted and complex phenomenon of corruption and thereby fosters a more nuanced and detailed understanding of it. With contributions by Lotte Beck, Rainer Dombois, Claudia Ehrhardt, Eike Emrich, Sabine Fütterer, Freya Gassmann, Peter Graeff, Olaf Meyer, Volker Nagel, Holger Niehaus, Alexander Nützenadel, Karl-Dieter Opp, Jonathan Pinto, Tanja Rabl, Christoph Reichard, Stephanie Thiel and Sebastian Wolf