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An example of noble cause corruption is police misconduct "committed in the name of good ends", [3] or neglect of due process through "a moral commitment to make the world a safer place to live". [4] The knowing misconduct by a law enforcement officer or prosecutor with the goal of attaining what the officer believes is a "just" result.
Scrupulosity is the pathological guilt and anxiety about moral issues. Although it can affect nonreligious people, it is usually related to religious beliefs. It is personally distressing, dysfunctional, and often accompanied by significant impairment in social functioning.
Political corruption, or the telling of lies in public statements, tarnish not only individual politicians, but the entire conduct of political life, whether at local or national level. These are fairly universally regarded as blots on reputations, though in some cases there is a grey area between corruption and legitimate fund-raising.
A person who is corrupt is or has been spiritually or morally impure, or is acting/has acted illegally. By extension, the term is applied to a document, database or program being made unreliable by errors or alterations. Corrupt may also refer to: Corrupt, an Italian thriller film; Corrupt, an American crime film
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain.
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Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States, and until 1976 in Canada, that refers to "an act or behavior that gravely violates the sentiment or accepted standard of the community". [1] This term appears in U.S. immigration law beginning in the 19th century. [2]
Legal definitions of culpability, verbatim from the Pennsylvania Crimes Code, are: A person acts purposely (criminally) with respect to a material element of an offense when: if the element involves the nature of his conduct or a result thereof, it is his conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature or to cause such a result; and