About Expert


Key Topics
Write a description of a particular type of public trust crime.
Bribery is considered as an act of giving goods, money or other forms of recompense to a recipient for gaining undue advantage from them. Gifts of money and other items of value are not considered bribery because these things are available to everyone on an equivalent basis (Puil, 2014). Bribery can be in different forms like a sop, gift, perk discount favor, skim, free good, free trip, funding, payback campaign contribution, and promotion.
The government of all countries has taken various steps to ban bribery in their country. They make different bribery laws to limit it in their own country. Bribery laws are considered the set of criminal rules developed for dealing with people who attempt to buy influence with the decision-maker and public officials. The justice department of the US establishes "The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" for controlling the bribery activities in their nation (Gutterman, 2015). The act is responsible for all criminal and civil enforcement of the anti-bribery provisions with respect to foreign companies and domestic concerns and nationals. On the other hand, the US government also formulate an agency in 1978 which is known as the "Office of Government Ethics." The agency performs the leadership work and keeps an eye on every corruption activity so that it can be caught immediately without any delay (Spahn, 2013). This will able to bring fear in the mind of people regarding bribery. These acts and laws are specially established to root out bribery in the private and public sectors. This will help a country in making grow in its near future and will be a successful country in comparison to other countries.
Puil, J. V. D., & Weele, A. V. (2014). Bribery. In International Contracting: Contract Management in Complex Construction Projects (pp. 395-409).
Gutterman, E. (2015). Easier Done Than Said: Transnational Bribery, Norm Resonance, and the Origins of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.Foreign Policy Analysis, 11(1), 109-128.
Spahn, E. (2013). Implementing Global Anti-Bribery Norms from the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention to the UN Convention Against Corrupt.