Thesis title: Preventing crimes of bribery according to the functions of the Economic Police Force.

Major: Criminology and Crime prevention            Code:  9.38.01.05

Name of PhD student: Tran Van Nam                     Course: 22nd

Scientific title, degree and full name of the supervisors:
    1. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dac Hoan
    2. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Hai Hung

Name of training institution: The People’s Police Academy - The Ministry of Public Security

New contributions of the thesis:

The thesis is a systematic and comprehensive study of the current practice of the Economic police force in combatting and preventing the crime of bribery. It contains a number of new contributions to the policing literature as well as policing practices as following:

- Theoretical contributions

+ Developing new terms of crimes of bribery and related preventative activities of the Economic police force. Identifying distinctive characteristics of these activities. 

+ Analysing thoroughly the current situation of bribery crimes and the outcomes of policing practices of the Economic police force in bribery investigation and prevention.

+ Based on in-depth assessments, analyses and prediction of factors that could affects the crime prevention activities, the author has suggested some measures and solutions in order to improve the effectiveness of bribery prevention activities according to the function of the Economic police force. 

- Practical contributions

The thesis provides practical guidelines, and thus could be considered as an useful material for government agencies, provincial police forces, and police officers who are in charge of preventing and investigating corruption in general, and bribery crimes specifically, to enhance their law enforcement performance.