A fundamental condition for a society to function is that citizens have confidence in the legal system, authorities and elected officials. The project examines what the concept of corruption means in a legal context and how Swedish legislation should best be designed to prevent and prosecute it. When Sweden signed the UN Convention against Corruption in 2005, it was said that the concept of corruption had been virtually unknown in Swedish society for many years. However, the memory is short. Municipal politicians in Motala were convicted in 1998 for fraud and breach of trust, among other things. There were suspicions of bribery in connection with the export of JAS planes to South Africa in the 1990s and Bofors weapons to India in the 1980s. Other forms of abuse of power could be classified as corrupt behavior. An example would be obtaining benefits that a position allows. Corruption can include bypassing apartment queues or obtaining other benefits. The debate following Sahlins' purchase of Toblerone and other items on the government's credit card shows that this is highly undesirable behavior for a politician. The purpose of the project is to identify the system failures and undesirable behaviors that can be said to fall under the concept of corruption and to investigate what the legislation looks like now and what it should look like to best counteract such phenomena.