Corruption derives from the Latin verb corrumpere, which means to break into pieces, destroy, defraud, falsify, seduce, or bribe. But the meanings hardly end with those. They are merely one set of a procession of definitions and interpretations amassed...

In its most general sense, corruption means the perversion or abandonment of a standard. Hence it is common to speak of the corruption of language or of moral corruption. More narrowly, corruption refers to the abandonment of expected standards of...

Post-Mao China is an era of corruption as well as reform. Corruption has accelerated partly because the changes in the economy have provided officials with a much greater incentive and opportunity to embezzle funds or accept bribes. Taking advantage of...

The use of public office for private gain by the political establishment, bureaucrats or legislators. Its different forms include accepting bribes to change decisions, fraud, LAUNDERING MONEY and BLACK MARKET Operations. Corruption increases...

Corruption is a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original...

Corruption stories are not merely 'objective' depictions of corruption cases. Rather, they are a contested site, where power-based relations are produced and reproduced. A critical reading of official and media representations of corruption cases reveals not only the explicit, sometimes subtle, gender subtexts that...

CORRUPTION CONTINUES to be a major problem in many of the world's countries, according to a recent Transparency International (TI) study. The global anti-corruption organization's 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) indicates "serious levels of corruption in a majority of the countries that were...

Military: Three days after a national security adviser discussed the possibility of reinstating conscription, the Pentagon rightly set the record straight Monday. Americans will not be dragooned into service.But the hours between Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, a White House deputy national security adviser, talking about...

The jails of this crowded, sweltering city are getting crowded, and not with your typical prisoners.There's the previous prime minister's son. There's the disgraced deputy planning minister, a one-time economics professor from a prominent intellectual family. There's the chief forest conservator, who police say became...