Though corruption is difficult to define precisely, and harder still to quantify, it is undoubtedly one of the most widespread forms of criminal victimization in today’s world; and in its most serious forms it is properly regarded as a form of state crime rather than individual deviance. The International Crisis Group report Kyrgyzstan: A Hollow Regime Collapses, describes Kurmanbek Bakiyev’s government, overthrown in April 2010, as an example of ‘state corruption’, that is, ‘a system where the main levels of state power are controlled by individuals or a group whose main intent is to extract personal gain from public finances’ (p. 2, n. 2).