ABSTRACT
This article is based on the study Crime as a Cultural Problem. The Relevance of Perceptions of Corruption to Crime Prevention (Crime as a Cultural Problem: The Relevance of Perceptions of Corruption to Crime Prevention), carried out under the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Commission. I would like to express my special thanks to Zeynep Şarlak, Bülent Bali and Effi Lambropoulou for making this comparative analysis possible and for conducting the case studies in Turkey and Greece. The final reports of the case studies are available on the project website: http://www. uni-konstanz.de/crimeandculture/finalcountriesreport.htm.
** Article translated by Dr Deniz Erguvan.