| Abstract [eng] |
Although the phenomenon of the corruption is a common feature of any society, contemporary democratic states pay a lot of attention to it and put efforts on its control and prevention. This is the matter not only of the states, but also a topic or even a target of various transnational organizations such as the World Bank or the United Nations Organization etc. Still the corruption persists and is considered as the priority problem of the contemporary democratic states. Lithuania has the same situation about it. In order to find and better understand the problems of the prevention and control of the corruption in Lithuania, this work was divided into two parts: 1) the analyses of the perception of the corruption in different discourses of knowledge (this model is borrowed from the sociologist and philosopher A. Schutz), 2) the evaluation of the situation of the control and prevention of corruption in Lithuania. The first part of the work continues of the analyses of the critical criminologists’ insights about crime, power etc., the review and analyses of legal documents and secondary data of the research “Lietuvos korupcijos žemėlapis“(2001 – 2008). The second part of the work is mostly devoted to the analyses of the empirical data gathered from the interview with experts who represent these sectors: academic, non-governmental and governmental. The attitude towards the corruption in different discourses revealed contradictory: “the experts” are raising the questions about the definition of crime and the power to define it and also are trying to explain the factors which have an impact on the crime emergency; “the well informed citizens” propose only one and negative attitude towards the corruption and declare the fight against it; “people in the street” are mostly concerned about their own benefit, so their attitude towards the corruption is ambiguous. Situation like this brings the difficulty to ensure the systematic attitude towards the corruption prevention in all sectors of the society. To summarize the data of the empirical research it is noticed that the experts interviewed emphasize the problem of the complex and systematic attitude towards the solution of the corruption problem in Lithuania which was already mentioned. This idea is supported also by problems such like the lack of the political will and civic verdancy. |
