The Best-Selling Bribery Books of All Time

Scholars often use the term "structural corruption" when discussing modern Japan's political system--a system that forces politicians to exchange favors with businessmen in return for funds to finance their political careers. Scholars argue that the origins of corruption can be found in the "iron triangles" formed by politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen during the postwar era or during the Pacific War years. In this examination of malfeasance in Japanese public office, Richard Mitchell systematically surveys political bribery in Japan's historical and cultural contexts from antiquity to the early 1900s.

Mitchell's narrative serially considers scandals involving courtiers in the ancient imperial government, corruption among the shogun's samurai officials, and political bribery among bureaucrats and party politicians in the mid-nineteenth century. Mitchell concludes that bribery was as ubiquitous in premodern Japan as it has been in recent times. Focusing on the period since 1868, Mitchell discusses in fascinating detail changes in political bribery in the wake of suffrage expansion, estimates of the enormous amount of campaign money needed to win a Diet seat in both the prewar and postwar periods, and the low conviction rate of suspected takers of bribes. Here is a highly readable and reliable survey of an important yet largely neglected topic in English-language studies of Japanese political history.

Real case studies on bribery and corruption written by expert fraud examinersBribery and Corruption Casebook: The View from Under the Table is a one-of-a-kind collection of actual cases written by the fraud examiners who investigated them. These stories were hand-selected from hundreds of submissions and together form a comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining picture of the many types of bribery and corruption cases in varied industries throughout the world.

Each case outlines how the bribe or corruption was engineered, how it was investigated, and how perpetrators were brought to justiceWritten for fraud investigators, auditors, compliance officers, and corporate lawyersReflects the recent crackdown on bribery and prosecution of cases under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)Also by Dr. Joseph T. Wells: Fraud Casebook, Principles of Fraud Examination, and Computer Fraud CasebookThis book reveals the dangers of bribery and corruption and the measures that can be taken to prevent it from happening in the first place.

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is one of the best known and most feared white collar criminal laws in the world. Those involved in cross-border business—from directors in New York to factory managers in China—now live and work by codes of conduct shaped by the FCPA. Avoiding the pitfalls of overseas bribery, and knowing how to respond if corrupt payments somehow happen, are required tools for international executives and managers, professionals and entrepreneurs. Bribery Abroad contains lessons for everyone.

It explains how to comply with the FCPA, defenses that work and don’t work, and cases and events that teach about the FCPA and the global fight against public corruption.