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Law and Society

Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

2015

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Book Review: Vicarious Kinks: S/M In The Socio-Legal Imaginary,
 By Ummni Khan, Kyle Kirkup Sep 2015

Book Review: Vicarious Kinks: S/M In The Socio-Legal Imaginary,
 By Ummni Khan, Kyle Kirkup

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Book review of Vicarious Kinks: S/M In The Socio-Legal Imaginary,
by Ummni Khan.


Corruption In Developing Countries: What Keeping It In The Family Means For Everyone Else, Tonita Murray Sep 2015

Corruption In Developing Countries: What Keeping It In The Family Means For Everyone Else, Tonita Murray

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

The United Nations estimates that 30 per cent of all international development funding is lost to corruption. Identifying and understanding the dynamics of how such corruption occurs at the ground level could help to reduce opportunities for the diversion of funds from public purposes to private uses. An analysis of two highly publicized corruption cases in Kenya and one in Afghanistan identifies some common characteristics that may also be present in other cases around the world. The characteristics fall into four categories: (1) political, social, and cultural; (2) governance; (3) people; and (4) international. Different understandings of corruption, weak government …