CORRUPTION: THREATS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR SOCIETY

Abstract

The article is devoted to current problems and features that contribute to the development and spread of corruption in our time. Factors that have an impact on society in corruption offenses are analyzed. The forms of corruption and the directions of anti-corruption policy have been studied. The negative consequences of corrupt activity for society and the need to improve the existing system of anti-corruption policy are determined. The purpose of this article is to highlight the danger of corruption for society as a manifestation of criminal acts. Nowadays, the effective development of the country and its national security are affected by many factors, certain challenges and threats. It became an important problem corrupt activity in the middle of the country, which badly penetrates into all spheres of society and inhibits the process of European integration of Ukraine. Corruption in its various manifestations exists in all countries of the world, thus reflecting the inefficiency of the state authorities and exposing certain flaws in their policies. In Ukraine, too, corruption relations have acquired a broad and progressive character, which complicates the process of overcoming it, requiring a lot of effort and financial resources for this. The result was the adoption of a whole complex of international legal acts (mandatory and recommendatory) prepared and adopted by the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, the European Union, etc. International legal instruments differed in their scope of application, but all of them had one goal – to establish common standards for combating corruption by ensuring the implementation of anti-corruption laws at the national level. Currently, corruption is a system of socio-legal and socio-political phenomena that are closely related to all social processes of the country, taking into account all the national, demographic, socio-political and ethnic characteristics of this state. It is a powerful factor that negatively affects the political life of society and undermines democratic procedures. Corruption causes a certain destructive effect on the basis of public administration and legal regulation of social relations. The main goal of the state anti-corruption policy is to create a system methods of preventing and countering corruption offenses, identifying its prerequisites and bringing the guilty to justice.