Integration of the gender approach to the corruption prevention system

Abstract

It is an indisputable fact that corruption is one of the most global problems, which makes impossible and slows down the effective development of society and threatens its stability and security. The consequences of corruption are not limited to the economic sphere, they extend to all spheres of social relations. Also, as you know, corruption is not a local phenomenon, today it is a global problem that undermines the principles of the rule of law, justice, and, in addition, negatively affects the economy of all countries. The broad regulatory framework of international legal acts on the fight against corruption confirms the desire of the world community to overcome this problem and achieve a global anti-corruption system. The article carries out a criminological analysis of corruption in the world based on a gender approach and identifies the probable reasons and conditions for differences in the attitude of men and women to corruption. The authors studied the specifics of the effects of corruption on men and women from the perspective of a gender approach. Many scholars emphasize that corruption has different effects on individuals belonging to different genders, and this can be observed in all spheres of activity. Within this issue, there are different points of view as to whether there are any differences in the attitude of men and women towards corruption, or vice versa - their attitude is the same. In particular, during the search for the truth in this dilemma, the authors conducted an authors' research, during which 160 respondents were interviewed about their attitude to corruption, whether they believe that gender inequality increases it, who is more harmed, and cited cases that should clarify, whether gender and corruption are really interconnected. In addition, the authors investigated social relations that are built at different levels of human life, where corruption risks can arise, which in a certain way affect either men or women more, that is, as a result, a certain gender group becomes victims of the gender­based consequences of corruption. The article also proposes and characterizes the mechanism of introducing a gender approach to the anti-corruption system and outlines ways to improve this system in Ukraine. In general, consideration of the system of prevention of corruption from the perspective of a gender approach is the key to improving the effectiveness of the fight against corruption, because it will allow the use of additional tools and means to this mechanism that will minimize corruption risks in those areas where discriminatory effects on the basis of gender are possible.