Event
Police, Corruption and Crime in Development
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) has the pleasure of inviting you to the conference:
Police, Corruption and Crime in Development
The conference concludes the NRC funded project on the connections between growth, development, conflict-solving, crime and police corruption.
Programme (10.00-16.00)
Opening and Welcome
- Jan M. Haakonsen, Norwegian Research Council
Section I: Crime, Development and Police Corruption (10.15 – 11.45)
- 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 – 12.45)
- Crime and police corruption in Kenya Tiberius Barasa, Centre for Policy Research, Kenya.
- Police corruption in India. Amit Shrivastava, University of Bergen,
Lunch
Section III: Consequences of police corruption (13.30 – 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