Arrangement

Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt har gleden av å invitere til konferansen

Police, Corruption and Crime in Development

Konferansen holdes på engelsk og setter sluttstrek for et prosjekt finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd som har sett på sammenhenger mellom vekst, utvikling, konfliktløsning, kriminalitet og politikorrupsjon.

Programme (10.00-16.00)

Opening and Welcome

• Iver B. Neumann, NUPI
• Jan M. Haakonsen, Norges forskningsråd

Section I:  Crime, Development and Police Corruption (10.15 – 12.00)
 

• Crime induced poverty traps revisited Kalle Moene, UiO 
• Police crime Petter Gottschalk, BI
• Police corruption in developing and developed countries. Some causes.  Jens C. Andvig, NUPI, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, CMI.

Coffee Break

Section II: Case Studies from Developing Countries (12.00 – 13.00)

• Crime and  police corruption in Kenya Tiberius Barasa, Centre for Policy Research, Kenya
• Police corruption in India.  Amit Shrivastava, University of Bergen, 
• Q & A

Lunch

Section III: Consequences of police corruption (13.40 – 15.30)

• Income distribution and police corruption. An econometric analysis.Gbewopo Attilla

• Police misconduct and task commitment in some US. police forces. The importance of task legitimacy in the public sector. Scott Gates, Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO

• Panel initiated debate: The role of crime and police behavior in developmentIncluding Morten Bøås (FAFO), Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, CMI, Gunnar Thomassen, PHS