Police Corruption in Kazakhstan: The Preliminary Results of the Study

Nurgaliyev, Bakhyt Moldatjaevich; Ualiyev, Kuatzhan; Simonovich, Branislav

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“…2 Yet these cases, while visible, only constitute a tiny share of all criminal cases. 3 The bigger picture shows that Kazakhstan has drastically reduced its prison population without using amnesties, while enforcing total registration of crimes and practicing zero-tolerance policing. 4 It has abolished the Soviet-era supervisory review of final court judgments and return of criminal cases for supplementary investigation, which gave an unfair advantage to the prosecution.…”

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Between Convictions and Reconciliations: Processing Criminal Cases in Kazakhstani Courts

Trochev¹

2018

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Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 50 : No. 1 , Article 5The criminal justice system in Kazakhstan is full of contradictions: Soviet-era accusatorial bias in pre-trial detention and sentencing goes hand in hand with the pro-defendant bias in closing criminal cases. This paradoxical co-existence of seemingly contradictory biases fits well within the informal power map of the criminal justice system. The major reform—reducing prison population to decrease recidivism and minimize international shaming—was coupled with the more recent drives for closing cases on the basis of reconciliation, the total registration of crimes, and zero tolerance approach to combating crime have been achieved only through the change of the incentive structure in the criminal justice system. The post-Soviet innovation of closing criminal cases of public prosecution based on the reconciliation with the victim of crime has proliferated in Kazakhstan because this matched both the incentives of the key actors in the criminal justice system and demands from private actors who are involved in criminal proceedings. In contrast, other types of public participation, such as jury trials, which implement the right to a fair trial, give teeth to adversarial proceedings, and cultivate judicial independence—requirements of the Constitution of Kazakhstan—have rarely been used because they disrupt existing power relationships within the law-enforcement system.

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Between Convictions and Reconciliations: Processing Criminal Cases in Kazakhstani Courts

Trochev¹

2018

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“…The corruption of law enforcement in Central Asia, and Kazakhstan in particular, has been the subject of heated academic debate (Cecarelli 2007;Cornell, 2006;Nurgaliyev et al, 2015). It is possible that corrupt and ineffective Kazakhstani border controls contributed significantly to the expansion of drug trafficking in Kazakhstan.…”

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The Devil is in the Details: Drug-Trafficking and Corruption in Kazakhstan

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The central aim of this thesis was to study drug trafficking, drug related corruption and reactions to it in Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan, where billions of foreign investment are at stake, active state measures have produced significant changes in the drug markets. Geographic proximity to Russia, as well as the strategic interests of foreign actors in the region, are shown to have affected the way Central Asian governments respond to drug trafficking. Kazakhstan's key geographic position rendered it a bridge that connected regional drug capitals with Russian markets, and some drugs remained in Kazakhstan too. Drugs were mostly trafficked across legitimate trade routes connecting Central Asia and Russia. The structure of drug enterprises is placed under close examination. The empirical evidence is presented that drug trafficking enterprises in Kazakhstan can accurately be described as disorganised structures. Competitive advantage belonged to entrepreneurs who could link themselves with informal networks capable of exploiting the connection between production, transit and consuming countries. Such connections, or relational capital, seemed to be embedded into existing social relationships of actors. The measures taken against corrupt state officials resulted in thousands of criminal trials and imprisonments, and a recalculation by police officials nationwide about the costs and benefits of engaging in corrupt activities. The results were achieved mainly due to intensive enforcement of new legislation against corruption. However, this updated legislation still had a flavour of Sovietstyle attitude towards drugs and could still be considered very strict in terms of international standards.

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Challenges in Controlling, Combating, and Preventing Corruption in Developing Countries

Simonović

2018

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Police Corruption in Kazakhstan: The Preliminary Results of the Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 8 publications

Between Convictions and Reconciliations: Processing Criminal Cases in Kazakhstani Courts

Between Convictions and Reconciliations: Processing Criminal Cases in Kazakhstani Courts

The Devil is in the Details: Drug-Trafficking and Corruption in Kazakhstan

Challenges in Controlling, Combating, and Preventing Corruption in Developing Countries

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