Measuring Integrity and identifying Corruption. Several dishonest acts constitute the increasing power of temptation over conscience. A continual pattern of dishonest acts constitutes the complete dominance of temptation over conscience. That kind of victory for temptation constitutes corruption of the individual . When that corruption taints a sufficient number of individual members of a particular group, the entire group will be publicly perceived as corrupt .
All men are subject to some degree of temptation.
It is axiomatic that the greater the temptation the more likely the fall . Risk of discovery, 3. Probability, speed and severity of punishment, and 4. Peer Pressure . Let us examine the impact of these factors.