Corruption
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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 purpose.
Specific types of corruption include:
- Political corruption, corruption of a political system through bribery, intimidation, extortion, vote buying, destabilization, or influence peddling
- Police corruption
- Corporate crime
- Data corruption, the receiving of data which is different from that which was transmitted or otherwise intended
- Corruption (linguistics) of language or a text into a broken form or a different meaning
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