Police Strategies to
Control High-Level
Corruption

A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

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Police Strategies to
Control High-Level
Corruption

A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Committee on Evidence to Advance Reform in
the Global Security and Justice Sectors

Committee on Law and Justice

Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

A Consensus Study Report of

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COMMITTEE ON EVIDENCE TO ADVANCE REFORM IN THE GLOBAL SECURITY AND JUSTICE SECTORS

LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN (Chair), University of Cambridge and Metropolitan Police in London

BEATRIZ ABIZANDA, Inter-American Development Bank

YANILDA MARÍA GONZÁLEZ, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

GUY GROSSMAN, University of Pennsylvania

JOHN L. HAGAN, Northwestern University

KAREN HALL, Rule of Law Collaborative, University of South Carolina

CYNTHIA LUM, George Mason University

EMILY OWENS, University of California, Irvine

JUSTICE TANKEBE, University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology

JULIE ANNE SCHUCK, Study Director

SUNIA YOUNG, Senior Program Assistant (from October 2021)

ABIGAIL ALLEN, Associate Program Officer (from November 2021)

EMILY P. BACKES, Associate Director, Committee on Law and Justice

MEGAN SNAIR, Technical Writer

COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE

ROBERT D. CRUTCHFIELD (Chair), University of Washington (retired)

SALLY S. SIMPSON (Vice Chair), University of Maryland

ROD K. BRUNSON, Northeastern University

SHAWN D. BUSHWAY, University at Albany

PREETI CHAUHAN, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW, University of California, Los Angeles

MARK S. JOHNSON, Howard University

CYNTHIA LUM, George Mason University

JOHN M. MACDONALD, University of Pennsylvania

KAREN J. MATHIS, American Bar Association (retired), University of Denver

THEODORE A. MCKEE, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

SAMUEL L. MYERS JR., University of Minnesota

EMILY OWENS, University of California, Irvine

CYNTHIA RUDIN, Duke University

WILLIAM J. SABOL, Georgia State University

LINDA A. TEPLIN, Northwestern University Medical School

NATACHA BLAIN, Director

EMILY P. BACKES, Associate Director