ON CONTROLLING CRIME WITH CORRUPT OFFICIALS

This paper attempts to synthesize the recently developed strategic app roach towards modeling corruption and the classical views. The followi ng propositions are sought to be proved: (a) If reward schemes are int roduced, the classical and the strategic approaches yield similar resu lts so far as controlling crime is concerned; (b) With probability of detection being dependent on the effort of a corrupt official, crime c annot be controlled; and (c) In the context of an infinitely repeated game of crime, the corrupt law enforcing agent might choose less bribe s and lower effort level than the myopic optimal and hence would strat egically pamper crime. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.