Values of our “Home” as Fraudulent Friends – Home as a Confidence-Building Element in Corrupt Transactions

Abstract

Friends from home need to help each other when it is necessary. Especially when individuals who call the
 same area their home meet each other far away from it, the willingness to help a stranger can be bigger than
 at their actual home. The difference between a good deed and a crime can be obvious, but the distinction
 between preferential treatment and corruption is difficult to make, particularly in different cultural contexts
 and situations. However, corruption is not automatically defined as the exchange of money or gifts for a
 decision, license or preferential treatment, nor as doing a simple favour for a friend. In this paper, the theory
 of New Institutional Economics will be used to explain how the term “home” can be a confidence-building
 factor and a base for corrupt transactions.