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53 Crime L. & Soc. Change 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/crmlsc53 and id is 1 raw text is: Crime Law Soc Change (2010) 53:1-3 DOI 10.1007/s10611-009-9230-0 Anti-corruption agencies and the need for strategic approaches: a preface to this special issue Nikos Passas Published online: 29 December 2009 O Springer Science+Business Media B.V 2009 The UN convention against corruption, also known as the Merida convention, came into force on the 14th December 2005 and constitutes the most comprehensive international instrument on this matter. It mandates independent anti-corruption bodies for States Parties. Such bodies may already exist and there may be more than one body in each jurisdiction. These may address prevention, analysis, law enforcement or a combination of these functions. A new organization was created in April 2006 aiming to assist in the effective implementation of the UN convention and to bring representatives and activities of anti-corruption bodies together: the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities (http://www.iaaca.org). At the same time, many governments are motivated to demonstrate leadership and political will against corruption. One way of doing this is through the establishment of anti-corruption commissions and related bodies. In this context, many new authorities have been designated or created in recent years. As we learn from this timely special issue, the record is mixed and a great deal of work lies ahead as the international community seeks to build on the current anti- corruption momentum. The papers of this volume show how diverse anti-corruption bodies are as they reflect different cultures and traditions, some have made great strides toward accomplishing their goals while others have fallen back, some are national while others local, some are well integrated with other government agencies and interact well with other anti-corruption stakeholders, while others operate in isolation. Readers of this special issue will see how some national agencies are better resourced and more effective than others and how these results may be related to political will in the country to deal seriously with corruption. We learn how a small country, Fiji, has established an independent commission the investigations of which reached up to prime-ministerial level, and how social views on what is corruption N. Passas (E) College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA e-mail: n.passas@neu.edu 4L Springer

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