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CORRUPTION, CRIME AND IMMORALITY
IN THE MODERN TIMES!
By
K.V. Ramakrishna Rao, B.Sc., M.A., A.M.I.E.,
C.ENG.(I)., B.L.
IRS (Retd.)

How corruption is identified : Corruption is an
immoral against established socio, religious values, and
economic political and judicial regulations. Indecency,
dissipated morality and depraved ethics are unbecoming
and they contribute to corruption. Corruption sits in the minds of people who
are then prepared to sin accordingly.
(1) Corruption first sets in the minds and this enables the doer to com-
mitting a crime. Organized corruption is institutionalized. Institu-
tionalized corruption rules the roost.
(2) Where institutionalized corruption has set in, factors of morality,
ethics, virtue, probity, integrity or honesty rarely affect any process
and illegal transactions take place.
In the places of worship, hospitals, educational institutions, banks,
why even in rest rooms, people like to go inside by breaking the
queue, order or system and save time, this is the simplest and basic
form of corruption.
(3) It is just like a judge taking up a case filed yesterday, when, millions
of cases filed 20-30 years are kept pending.
(4) Many times, professional bias, trained prejudice and orchestrated
favouritism result in corruption.
Corruption defined and analysed
(1) Corruption can be simply defined as a moral deviation, an unethical
condition, which makes a man -
(a) to perceive, conceive and decide to think something (unethi-
cal).
(b) then, do indulge in an act.
(c) that is recognized as sleaze, fraud, vice, decadent and de-
bauched.
(2) Though corruption is dishonesty, but, many times it is synonymous
with bribery or illegal pecuniary benefit in the modern context of
materialism.
(3) No one wants to take a bribe or money unfairly or immediately
from another man, as everyone has self-esteem. The motive, cause
and reason for corruption is complex and needs understanding.
(4) Hereditary and environmental factors play role in shaping a per-
son’s attitude to corruption. Though psychologists point out the he-
reditary factors, sociologists may differ linking such aberrations
with environmental factors.
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