This book sets out to examine the impact of corruption in and on criminal justice systems and the public acceptance and legitimacy, or lack of it, of the state’s power to punish, particularly once exposed as corrupt. The inspiration for this book comes from cases of corruption that regularly surface around the world that discredit criminal justice in democratic and non-democratic nations. Whilst corruption is perhaps expected under dictatorships and/or an absolute monarchy (Greitens 2016; Yadav and Mukherrjee 2016) for at least some of the population in these states, it is perhaps most disappointing if or when corruption occurs in democratic nations where there is the expectation that criminal justice and the law is impartial and objective.