Corruption

The word corrupt (Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to destroy : com-, intensive pref. and rumpere, to break) when used as an adjective literally means "utterly broken". In modern English usage the words corruption and corrupt have many meanings:


 * Political corruption, the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or employees for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes
 * Police corruption, a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits, other personal gain, and/or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest
 * Corporate corruption, corporate criminality and the abuse of power by corporation officials, either internally or externally
 * Corruption (philosophical concept), often refers to spiritual or moral impurity, or deviation from an ideal
 * Corruption Perceptions Index, published yearly by Transparency International
 * Putrefaction, the natural process of decomposition in the human and animal body following death
 * Data corruption, an unintended change to data in storage or in transit
 * Linguistic corruption, the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension
 * Bribery in politics, business, or sport
 * Rule of law, governmental corruption of judiciary, includes governmental spending on the courts, which is completely financially controlled by the executive in many transitional and developing countries

Institutions dealing with political corruption

 * Transparency International, a non-governmental organization that monitors and publicizes corporate and political corruption in international development
 * Global Witness, an international NGO established in 1993 that works to break the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict, poverty, corruption, and human rights abuses worldwide
 * Group of States Against Corruption, a body established under the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation of instruments adopted by member states to combat political corruption
 * Independent Commission Against Corruption (disambiguation)

Entertainment with corruption themes

 * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a 2007 Wii game
 * Corrupt (film), a 1981 film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon
 * Corruption (1933 film), a 1933 American film directed by Charles E. Roberts
 * Corrupt (1999 film), a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker
 * Corrupt (Angel), an unproduced teleplay written for the television program Angel
 * Kurupt (born 1972), rapper
 * Corruption (video game), a 1988 computer game by Magnetic Scrolls
 * Corrupted (band), a Japanese doom-metal band
 * Corruption (film), a 1968 British film directed by Robert Hartford-Davis
 * Fable Series, for the Xbox 360
 * Chaorruption, a form of corruption caused by Drakath and his 13 Lords of Chaos in Artix Entertainment's MMORPG, AdventureQuest Worlds
 * Tagore, a telugu chiranjeevi film