South Africa: The Law on Its Own is Insufficient in Battle Against Corruption

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Johannesburg — CORRUPTION is one of those social problems that cannot be solved by legal means. This is not an argument against law. Instead, it is a call for understanding law as a social process.

The law's efficacy will depend on its interaction with social behaviours and traditions, or what US legal anthropologist Sally Falk Moore calls semiautonomous social fields.

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