Journal of Environmental Treatment Techniques
2019, Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages: 383-388
destructive impact of corruption is particularly evident in the
sphere of activity of those public authorities that have the
closest and systemic contact with public institutions, the
population and ordinary citizens. Such state bodies are courts
and police, tax, customs and other agencies. Federal bailiff
service is among them, of course.
Organizational
factors
include,
in
particular,
insufficiently effective organization of control over the
activities of civil servants, excessive closeness and
sometimes-unjustified corporate solidarity of the majority of
state bodies, lack of transparency in their activities, weakness
of internal, departmental control.
The researchers note that the concept of corruption has
firmly entered the lexicon of modern man, although it has no
unambiguous interpretation in the public consciousness (22).
Analyzing the sociological aspects of corruption S.V.
Alekseev points out its creeping, network distribution that
allows figuratively associating it with the society’s cancer,
which is deadly is being eroded and is becoming
uncompetitive (1).
Corruption is so multifaceted and latent that it is difficult
to give it a correct statistical assessment. According to the
official website of the international non-governmental
organization Transparency International, which annually
since 1995, based on surveys of experts and entrepreneurs
conducted by independent organizations around the world, is
engaged in the development and creation of a composite
Index of perception of corruption (CPI), measuring the level
of perception of corruption in the public sector in different
countries, Russia in the CPI at the end of 2018 took 138 place
in the list of 180 countries and was rated at 28 points out of
Finally, staffing factors include shortcomings in the
selection and training of civil servants and, as a consequence,
their low professionalism and competence.
The main causes of corruption by science are also
investigated and outlined. Thus, the first component of the
institutional basis of corruption is considered the presence in
society of a constant immanent system of power relations
(4,6). The basis of corruption relations is the discretionary
power – the possibility and ability of any dominant entity to
distribute resources that do not belong to it at its own
discretion. The main motive for corruption is the possibility
of obtaining economic profit associated with the use of
power.
As the pre-revolutionary Russian lawyer B.N. Chicherin
wrote, "The government, which is not restrained by anything,
is easily inclined to arbitrariness" (7).
The scientific literature even suggests that corruption is a
direct violation of article 3 of the Constitution of the Russian
Federation, according to which the bearer of sovereignty and
the only source of power in the country is a multinational
people; it exercises its power directly and through freely
elected deputies and other people's representatives. Involving
the state power entrusted by the people in the shadow market
turnover, the corrupt official not only deceives voters, but
also appropriates unconstitutional powers in contradiction
with the requirements of justice and law (14).
Under the above circumstances, the behavior of the
authorities is clearly traced to the influence of political, socio-
psychological, legal, and organizational and personnel
determining factors taken together.
The second component of the institutional framework of
corruption is the most important economic institution of
society – the market. Each country has a historically
developed market of corruption services. The scale of this
specific market depends on the level of socio-economic
development of the country, the nature of its political regime,
the characteristics of the political culture of certain segments
of the population (6).
1
00 maximum possible (when corruption is hypothetically
absent). To understand the trend of changes in the analyzed
indicator over time, we note that in 2014-2017, Russia scored
2
9 points, and in 2018, losing one point fell by three places in
the ranking of countries in terms of perception of corruption.
In a press release on the results of the 2018 corruption
perceptions Index, Delia Ferreira Rubio, Chairman of the
Transparency International Board, noted that the probability
of corruption flourishing significantly increases where there
are weak democratic foundations, stressing that the
organization's studies have established a clear relationship
between the existence of a healthy democracy and a
successful fight against corruption in the public sector.
World science has been investigating corruption as a
social phenomenon for a long time. According to scientists,
corruption can be understood in at least four meanings:
General social, political economic, criminological and
criminal legislative (4,12).
The factors determining corruption processes are defined,
in particular, socio-economic, political, socio-psychological,
legal, organizational, personnel factors are singled out (3).
Socio-economic factors include property polarization of
the population; adherence of individuals and business entities
to the "ethics of efficiency, which is derived from the
calculation of capital", that is, the desire to maximize their
well-being and to shift to the shoulders of society their costs;
periodic economic and financial crises and unemployment.
Political factors include the presence of the political will
of the leadership to really (that is, not declaratively),
purposefully and consistently counter corruption crime.
Speaking of socio-psychological factors, the authors of
this theory include, first, the problem of the blurring of the
concept of moral duty by economic imperative.
In this case, it is also possible to note the influence of all
previously identified factors determining corruption
processes taken together.
The third component of the institutional framework for
the development of corruption is, according to scientists, the
imperfection of political and legal institutions. In particular,
we are talking about the inconsistency of the official status of
civil servants. The state gives them the right to make
decisions affecting the interests of different persons at their
discretion, on the one hand. On the other hand, there are no
barriers for entering into corruption relations of such state
employee and those individuals who are interested in
favorable decision (6).
The writer, philosopher and sociologist A.A. Zinoviev
(2009) at one time designated corruption as a universal law of
distribution and redistribution of life's benefits, according to
which every normal active member of society snatches for
him/herself as much life's benefits as his/her social position
The legal factors are the imperfection of the legal system,
inconsistency and absence of consequences of the reforms
carried out in the country.
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