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Corruption in Development: Definitional, Methodological and Theoretical Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Femi Odekunle Ph. D.
Femi Odekunle Ph. D.*
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Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
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Historical and ethnographic studies of “traditional” court functioning in most of our pre-colonial societies xhow that traditional rulers, as well as their chiefs, emissaries and henchmen, were perpetrators of certain institutionaled forms of corruption particularly in the adjudication of land and related disputes. Addes to this, and built upon it, were new forms of corruption made possible by the colonial political administration and economy. About 1952, the practice of giving and/or demanding “cash gift” was authoritatively stated to be found:

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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 22 , Issue 1-2 , 1984 , pp. 173 - 193
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Copyright © 1984 International Society for Criminology

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