Corruption is defined by Transparency International as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”. When corrupt individuals are able to take advantage of people in power, they are able to commit crimes that they would not normally be able to get away with. Among these illegal activities is the committing of homicides. Corrupt officials within countries around the world make it possible for criminals to operate with ease. This can be represented by the equation Homicide Rate = a+ b1(Corruption). I believe that in countries that hold a higher level of corruption, there will also be higher rates of homicide. Because countries that have higher rates of corruption make it easier for crime to be committed, there will be a higher rate of homicide …show more content…
Venezuela boasts 45.1 homicides per 100,000 people, as per the Human Development Report. According to the United States Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security, major factors of corruption in Venezuela and other South American countries are underpaid, undertrained, and underequipped police forces, as we saw with the escape of El Chapo. The corrupt individuals and organizations are able to offer these officials take advantage of these poorer individuals, offering them money and other benefits that they would never be able to dream of earning through an honest …show more content…
The line of fit can be represented by the equation Homicide rate = -4.040721196 + 0.28743118234033(Corruption Level). This translates to every time a country’s CPI increases by one point, the homicide level will increase by 28%. Based on this equation, we can guess that at a CPI of 40, there would be a homicide rate equaling 7.56 homicides per 100,000 people. After examining this line of fit and using the R-squared value to evaluate it, I was able to determine that the line of fit encompassed about 16% of the variability in the data. Based on the regression results, my hypothesis that corruption level and homicide rate were correlated proved to be statistically correct. While there is no proof that these two variables are connected to each other, based on the statistical analysis, we can make an educated assumption that there is some sort of relationship between a country’s level of corruption and homicide
Serpico (1973) is a movie that reveals the true story of Frank Serpico who was the only honest cop in the New York police sector at his time. The film shows the realistic view of the corruption that was evidenced in the New York police and highlights the character of Frank as being honest and courageous. Although he started as an inexperienced cop, he later worked as an undercover officer and was determined to bust all the criminal activities especially the drug dealers and pushers. Unlike the other cops, Serpico refused to take any bribes from the wrongdoers. More so, he felt that the other officers were doing wrong by accepting bribes and wanted to expose the situation. The other officers were so corrupt that they collected more money through bribes than the salary they earned, a situation that did not please Serpico. His strong stand concerning corruption made his friends turn against him, placing his life in danger. The anti-corruption efforts of Serpico jeopardized his life at the hands of his colleagues. He was later transferred to the Narcotics Squad where he was shot by a drug dealer after his partners betrayed him by failing to support him. The cop was then rushed to hospital. The shooting made Frank deaf since it affected the brain, rendering
In the book, The Jungle, the readers comprehend a traditional American story of the tragic lives of immigrants coming to this country in search of new life, and instead finding greed and corruption. People who came into America in the time period of the late 1800’s to early 1900’s experienced a whole new world not quite what they were expecting. Living conditions and homes were not treated as well as the lower class American homes were. Wages were at an all time low with a decreased purchasing power of immigrant’s money. Everywhere they turned, someone was there waiting to cheat them. The government, political machines, and even everyday merchants on the streets treated immigrants
Since the 1970s, Venezuela has gone from being South America’s richest nation into a nouveau-poor society in search of an identity. Once known as the Saudis of the West, Venezuelans have seen their economic fortunes decline in exact proportion to the general fall in world oil prices. Even so, Venezuela’s many problems were hidden from view until relatively recently, when severity measures heralded the sort of economic crises so painfully familiar to other Latin American countries. Runaway inflation, currency devaluations and even food riots have marked this new phase in Venezuelan history, to which the country is still trying to adjust.
A simple greedy thought can hurt many people. “The illusion of simplicity crumbles when one considers the many contexts in which this “effects” scenario can arise.(Erbsen, 2015 pg.389 )” They can not only hurt themselves and the state but it can also hurt the reputation of the police as well. “Honest officers are silenced by their fear of ``ratting ' ' on another cop no matter how grave the crime. Supervisors often fear the impact of a corruption scandal on their careers more than corruption itself. No institution wants its reputation tainted. But police departments have uniquely powerful incentives to avoid uncovering corruption (Armao et al, 1994).” The people need the police more than they think and if they think that they are run by corrupt officials then they will lose all faith in their police force and the police force will end up hurting their city thus end up hurting their state. “Corruption and misconduct undermine police efforts in tackling crime and protecting communities; they limit the effectiveness of police actions and have a detrimental effect on public confidence in the police (Wright, 2010 pg.339) If the police can be honest with the people and with themselves then the corruption could be dealt with even if it means the police’s reputation is tarnished. “Every police force faces the challenge of
Corruption consists in the illegitimate agreement between a corruptor and a corrupted, in which they abuse of their public power in order to obtain personal benefit. Bribery and corruption is something that has been going on for years. According to Allen, “officials perceive themselves as immune to any penalties for demanding and receiving bribes” which she states that it is one of the main reasons for bribery and corruption in underdeveloped countries. According to Transparency International, an organization committed exclusively to end corruption, three of the most corrupt countries in the world are Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan. This does not mean that corruption is only seen in underdeveloped countries. In international business, corporate employees often find themselves dealing with corruptors in foreign countries and, in most cases, they will give in.
...ified factors associated with drug related corruption were police officers code of silence and cynicism about the criminal justice system, ineffective supervision practices, and weaknesses in internal investigative units. Corruption in the police force has long been recognized, and condemned, by politicians. Often it revolves around an entire sum demanded of junior officers by their superiors as a sort of protection money. In turn these low-ranking officers demand monies from the public in return for turning a blind eye to infractions, real or invented. The code of silence among the police is what holds this corruption together so well. What really seems to worry the authorities, though, is the country's growing reputation as a haven for active and retired criminals and as a place where the police force is less a solution to the crime problem than a part of it.
For numerous years, corruption within the police department has been a national problem. The corruption is not only limited to America, it reaches parts of Asia and Europe. Police officers are investigated regarding this issue, with good judgement. Corruption and misconduct in the police department are evident in various embodiment.
Corruption in policing is viewed as the misuse of authority by a police officer acting officially to fulfill his/her personal needs or wants. There are two distinct elements of corruption; 1) misuse of authority, 2) personal attainment. The occupational subculture of policing is a major factor in both creating police corruption, by initiating officers into corrupt activities, and sustaining it, by covering up corrupt activities by other officers. Police corruption is a complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its beginnings, many aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. Police corruption has increased dramatically with the illegal cocaine trade, and the officer acting alone or in-groups to steal money from dealer and/or distribute cocaine themselves. Large groups of corrupt police officers have been caught in New York, New Orleans, Washington, Dc, and Los Angeles. Corruption within police departments falls into two basic categories; internal corruption, involving relationships among the police within the works of the police department (ex: promotions or favored assignments, usually purchased with bribes) and external corruption, which involves police contact with the public. There are many different forms of corruption; gratuity, involving free meals, free dry cleaning and discounts; bribery, involving the exchange of money or something of value between the police and wrong doer (this is very common among narcotics officers); theft and Burglary, involving office...
The term ‘organized crime’ encompasses such diverse phenomena as the whole illegal market, quasi-governmental criminal structures, corporate crime and state crime. This ambiguity is also the result of the fact that perpetrators of crimes from the same organization may include members of any occupational group, corrupt business executives, members of the professions, public officials, politicians, in addition obviously to the conventional racketeer element (Hagan 1983:56). Therefore, it has become commonplace to observe that there is no uniform understanding of organised crime, not to speak of a generally accepted definition (Levi, 1998). Within the international literature on organized crime are there different scientific approaches that often disclose single facets (economic, cultural, political, etc.) of this phenomenon, with the result that ‘as many descriptions as there are authors’ (Albanese, 1985: 4). The multidisciplinary dimension has not necessarily ensured a high level of theoretical penetration of the objects of study. Despite recent advances, the theoretical literature on organized crime remains to be fairly thin and fragmented. In describing the object of study, one should speak about a number of different empirical phenomena, which are examined in a rather loose conceptual context. Not all approaches contain a clearly formulated conception of ‘organised crime’, being it as a formal definition or as a less restrictive outline. Often enough, a conceptualization of ‘organised crime’ is only implicitly made, at times merely taking the form of vague associations. Secondly, in some cases it seemed difficult to distinguish between claims co...
I chose to research on the topic of why police officers engage in corruption, because it’s a problem that’s very sensitive to me. I grew up in Lagos, Nigeria and whenever I thought of a police officer, I couldn’t help but think of corruption. I always felt police officers were only corrupt in Nigeria but once I started studying the criminal justice system in the United States, I realized it’s actually a global problem; some are just more exposed than others. According to Sayed and Bruce (1998), “Police corruption is any illegal conduct or misconduct involving the use of occupational power for personal, group or organizational gain.” They also referenced the South Africa’s law in trying to define corruption. The law states that whosoever offers
In countries such as Colombia and Mexico, there is a direct link between illicit drug trafficking and the internal authority structure. These types of cartels find ways to corrupt governmental networks, by ridding the system of any political obstacles, to the optimization of their business’ economic output. For instance, “ almost 99% of the cocaine supply comes from Andean countries, which in turn, have forms of government known to be notoriously apt] to corruption” (Soberón Garrido Soberon). The operations done by these crime groups have to most impact on the lowly residents living in the places that they function in. For majority of occasions, any involvement of locals in the conduct of illegal operations is involuntary due to the excessive amount of authority instated to organized crime, which comes as a result of corruption in the area. In many cases farmers from developing countries produce illicit crops because they are not given a sustainable alternative by their government ("Organized Crime and Corruption"). Thus, the circle of corruption is continuously fed, without means of external intervention; the corruption in these kinds of places drives its population further and further from developing. While drug trafficking may generate the most amount of income in the regions that it operates in, the international human trafficking
Authority in a society is a necessary evil which when unfettered, results in the abuse of power. Power has long been considered a corrupting and a disrupting force in function and in influence. Underlying motives and greed fuel those who seek to gain and or abuse this power. The Crucible examines this twisted force as it corrupts societies’ clergy, blinds its justices, and empowers those who seek to abuse it. Arthur Miller shows how power can be a corrupting influence and how it can blind the judgment of authoritative figures.
Some people said that corruption is rampant in all governments, So that it is not unknown to any ethnic group, region and continent. It cuts across faiths, political systems, religious Denominations and affects both young and old people. Fraud can be found in public and authoritarian rule;...
In simple terms Public Corruption can be defined as the misuse of public office for private gain.Corruption is an outcome and reflection of a country’s economic,legal,cultural and political institutions. Transparency International(2005,2008) found that more than 65% of Indians had a first hand experience of paying bribes and nearly 45% used contacts to get job done.Institutionalised Corruption has long been prevalent in India.Big Business and individuals dictate bureaucratic norms by breaking law,paying off public servants just to gain access to elements of governance.
According to the scholar Adrianna Magdalena Sandu, corruption and organized crime are related to each other, where the former is the result of the latter and vice versa. Sandu relates in her article that corruption is a result of criminal activity and criminal activity provokes a higher level of corruption in society.