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Crimes And Offenses Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations; Apply Georgia Rico Act To Interrelated Patterns Of Criminal Activity Motivated By Or The Effect Of Which Is Pecuniary Gain Or Economic Or Physical Threat Or Injury To Others, Lisa M. Gable

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act makes interrelated patterns of criminal activity motivated by or resulting in pecuniary gain a violation of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The Act imposes sanctions against persons violating the Act and provides compensation to persons injured or aggrieved by violations of the Act. The Act requires a liberal construction to effectuate the remedial purposes of the Act. The Act specifically declares that acts of civil disobedience shall not be prosecuted under the statute.

The Role Of The World Bank In Controlling Corruption, Susan Rose-Ackerman

Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture

In 1997, Professor of Law and Political Science, Susan Rose-Ackerman of Yale University, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s seventeenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: "The World Bank’s Role in Controlling Corruption."

Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, and Co-director of the Law School’s Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Fullbright Commission. She was a visiting Research Fellow at the World Bank in 1995-96 where she did research on corruption and economic …

Mr. Carter Goes To Washington, Allen K. Rostron

Faculty Works

Jimmy Carter's presidency began like Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), as the tale of an idealistic and innocent outsider making his way from a humble small town to the nation's capital. Following that promising beginning, disappointment and frustration followed. The story of Carter's undoing found reflection in several films of that era, particularly "...And Justice for All" (1979), "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" (1979), and "Brubaker" (1980). Each concerns an idealistic hero whose uncompromised good intentions cannot prosper. These films capture a unique period when events tested America's enduring belief in the efficacy of virtue.

Corruption And Organized Crime: Lessons From History, Margaret E. Beare

Articles & Book Chapters

The intention of this paper is to serve in part as a warning to the international community concerned about corruption, to keep the focus based on the critical analysis of empirically verifiable information. In ways similar to how theorists spoke about organized crime in the 1960's and 1970's, articles today attempt to refer to corruption as if there were one agreed upon definition. However, like the concept “organized crime”, the term “corruption” involves diverse processes which have different meanings within different societies. Corruption (or a focus on corruption), may be the means toward very diverse ends and each may have …

An American Prosecutor's View Of Romanian Criminal Justice, James A. Goldston

Touro Law Review

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Policing Illicit U.S. Business Actions Overseas, Paula Stern, Alexander W. Koff

Michigan Journal of International Law

Review of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Coping with Corruption in Transitional Economies by Jeffrey P. Bialos & Gregory Husisian