Corruption - A Glossary of International Criminal Standards

This Glossary examines the key standards for criminalisation of corruption established by the 3 major international conventions: the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption, and the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The Glossary explains these standards, including elements of the bribery offences, sanctions, defences and immunity, statute of limitation, responsibility of legal persons, special investigative techniques, extradition, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery, and clarifies which level of implementation would be sufficient to be compliant with these international conventions.

The Glossary also contains a checklist, which can help assess the level of compliance of a particular country with these key standards.