CORRUPTION, what are we talking about?

Abstract

This work traces a scenario of corruption as a recurring human phenomenon, since its millenary origin radiates its effects on individuals and institutions, compromising the fundamental values and rights of the individual. It seeks to identify its nature and characteristics in the prospective effort of contemporary theorists, to delimit the conceptual field of incidence. The studied literature reflects the enormous difficulty in combating conduct, requiring a multidisciplinary approach. It reveals that there is no one who can consider himself invulnerable to virulent contagion, nor any institution that is vulnerable to its harmful effects. In the end, the realization that this is a threat to Democracies and to the fundamental rights of the individual, the State´s duty to figth it, everyone's right and responsibility to contribute to its eradication.