All Topics  
Scandal

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Scandal
 
 
  Topics Scandal Topic Home

A scandal is a widely public
Public

Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private sector; as, the public treasury, a road or lake....
ized incident that involves allegation
Allegation

An allegation is a claim of a fact by a party in a pleading, which the party claims to be able to prove. Allegations remain assertions without proof, until they can be proved....
s of wrongdoing
Malfeasance in office

Malfeasance in office, or official misconduct, is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties....
, disgrace, or moral
Morality

Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
 outrage. A scandal may be based on reality
Reality

Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". In a sense it is what is real. The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that being, whether or not it is observation or comprehension....
, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both.

From the Greek s???da???, which was a stone intentionally placed to trip someone.

Some scandals are broken by whistleblower
Whistleblower

A whistleblower is a person who alleges misconduct. More complex definitions may be used, but the issue is that the whistleblower usually faces reprisal....
s who reveal wrongdoing within organization
Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
s or group
Group (sociology)

A group can be defined as two or more humans that interact with one another, accept expectations and obligations as members of the group, and share a common Identity ....
s, most notably Deep Throat
Deep Throat

Deep Throat was the pseudonym given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation W. Mark Felt who, as a secret source, provided information to The Washington Post about the involvement of United States President of the United States Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as...
 (William Mark Felt
W. Mark Felt

William Mark Felt, Sr. was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
) during the 1970s Watergate
Watergate complex

The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in Washington DC Washington, D.C., United States, best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President of the United States of America Richard Nixon....
 scandal
Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandals were a series of United States political scandals during the President of the United States of Richard Nixon that resulted in the indictment of several of Nixon's closest advisors, and ultimately his resignation on August 9, 1974....
 that involved President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Scandal'
Start a new discussion about 'Scandal'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


A scandal is a widely public
Public

Public, adj, is of or pertaining to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; opposed to Private sector; as, the public treasury, a road or lake....
ized incident that involves allegation
Allegation

An allegation is a claim of a fact by a party in a pleading, which the party claims to be able to prove. Allegations remain assertions without proof, until they can be proved....
s of wrongdoing
Malfeasance in office

Malfeasance in office, or official misconduct, is the commission of an unlawful act, done in an official capacity, which affects the performance of official duties....
, disgrace, or moral
Morality

Morality has three principal meanings.In its first, descriptive usage, morality means a code of conduct which is held to be authoritative in matters of right and wrong....
 outrage. A scandal may be based on reality
Reality

Reality, in everyday usage, means "the state of things as they actually exist". In a sense it is what is real. The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that being, whether or not it is observation or comprehension....
, the product of false allegations, or a mixture of both.

From the Greek s???da???, which was a stone intentionally placed to trip someone.

Some scandals are broken by whistleblower
Whistleblower

A whistleblower is a person who alleges misconduct. More complex definitions may be used, but the issue is that the whistleblower usually faces reprisal....
s who reveal wrongdoing within organization
Organization

An organization is a social arrangement which pursues collective goals, which controls its own performance, and which has a boundary separating it from its environment....
s or group
Group (sociology)

A group can be defined as two or more humans that interact with one another, accept expectations and obligations as members of the group, and share a common Identity ....
s, most notably Deep Throat
Deep Throat

Deep Throat was the pseudonym given to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation W. Mark Felt who, as a secret source, provided information to The Washington Post about the involvement of United States President of the United States Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as...
 (William Mark Felt
W. Mark Felt

William Mark Felt, Sr. was an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation....
) during the 1970s Watergate
Watergate complex

The Watergate complex is an office-apartment-hotel complex built in 1967 in Washington DC Washington, D.C., United States, best known for being the site of burglaries that led to the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President of the United States of America Richard Nixon....
 scandal
Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandals were a series of United States political scandals during the President of the United States of Richard Nixon that resulted in the indictment of several of Nixon's closest advisors, and ultimately his resignation on August 9, 1974....
 that involved President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
 Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
. Falsely alleged scandals can lead to witch-hunt
Witch-hunt

A witch hunt is a search for witches or evidence of witchcraft, often involving moral panic, mass hysteria and mob lynching, but in historical instances also legally sanctioned and involving official witchcraft trials....
s against the innocent
Innocence

Innocence is a term used to indicate a general lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, sin, or wrongdoing. In a Criminal law, innocence refers to the lack of guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime....
. Sometimes an attempt to cover up
Cover-up

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to concealment evidence of wrong-doing, error, incompetence or other embarrassment information....
 a scandal ignites a greater scandal when the cover-up fails. Classes of scandals include:
  • Political
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
     scandals
    Political scandal

    A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials are accused of engaging in various illegal, political corruption, or unethical practices....
  • Sex
    Human sexual behavior

    Human sexual behavior or human sexual practices refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their human sexuality. It encompass a wide range of activities such as strategies to find or attract partners , interactions between individuals, physical intimacy or emotional intimacy, and sexual contact....
     scandals
    Sex scandal

    A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved and/or non-sexual norm nature of the sexuality....
  • Academic
    Academia

    Academia, Academe, or the Academy are collective terms for the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research....
     scandals
    Academic dishonesty

    Academic dishonesty or academic misconduct is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. It can include...
  • Sport
    Sport

    Sport is an activity that is governed by a set of regulation of sport or traditions and often engaged in competitively. Sports commonly refer to activities where the physical capabilities of the competitor are the sole or primary determinant of the outcome , but the term is also used to include activities such as mind sports and motor...
    ing scandal
    List of sporting scandals

    This is a list of major sports scandals:*Black Sox Scandal *Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker's match fixing *Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays banned from baseball for being doormen in an Atlantic City Casino ...
    s (especially Olympic Games
    Olympic Games

    The Olympic Games are an international multi-sport event established for both summer and winter sports. There have been two generations of the Olympic Games; the first were the Ancient Olympic Games held at Olympia, Greece, Greece....
     scandals
    Olympic Games scandals

    Both the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games have been marred by various incidents and scandals. They include:...
    )


Western world
Western world

The term Western world, the West or the Occident can have multiple meanings dependent on its context . Accordingly, the basic definition of what constitutes "the West" varies, expanding and contracting over time, in relation to various historical circumstances....

The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 in the 1950s was swept by a wave of game show
Game show

A game show is a type of television program in which members of the public or celebrity, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving problems for money and/or prizes....
 scandals
Quiz show scandals

The United States quiz show scandals of the 1950s were the result of the revelation that contestants of several popular television quiz shows were secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition....
. Another major type of scandal is a corporate
Corporate scandal

A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort....
, especially those that involve accounting
Accountancy

Accountancy or accounting is the system of recording, verifying, and reporting of the value of assets, liabilities, income, and expenses in the books of account to which debit and credit entries are chronologically posted to record changes in value ....
. A wave of such scandals
Accounting scandals

Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals are political scandals and corporate abuses which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations....
 swept American companies
Company

Generally, a company is a form of business organization. The precise definition varies.In the United States, a company is a corporation—or, less commonly, an association, partnership, or union—that carries on an industrial enterprise." Generally, a company may be a "corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, Inv...
 in 2002. Nineteenth-century Western society
Western culture

File:Clash of Civilizations map.pngWestern culture are terms which are used to refer to cultures of European origin. This terminology originated as a way of describing what was different about the Graeco-Roman culture and its descendants, in contrast to the older neighboring civilizations of the Middle East, which in many ways continued...
's Seven Social
Social

Social refers to a characteristic of living organisms . It always refers to the interaction of organisms with other organisms and to their collective co-existence, irrespective of whether they are aware of it or not, and irrespective of whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary....
 Scandals were fraud
Fraud

In the broadest sense, a fraud is a deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction....
, bankruptcy
Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors. Creditors may file a bankruptcy petition against a debtor in an effort to recoup a portion of what they are owed or initiate a restructuring....
, unwed
Extramarital sex

Extramarital sex occurs when a Marriage engages in sexual activity with someone other than their marriage partner.Where extramarital sexual relations breach a Sexual_norm it may also be referred to as adultery, fornication, philandary, or infidelity....
 pregnancy
Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, inside the uterus of a female. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or Multiple birth....
, adultery
Adultery

Adultery is the voluntary sexual intercourse between a marriage and another person who is not his or her spouse, though in many places it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someone who is not her husband and in others it is only considered adultery when a married woman has sexual relations with someon...
, homosexuality
Homosexuality

Homosexuality refers to human sexual behavior or same-sex attraction between people of the same sex or to homosexual orientation. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality refers to "having sexual and romantic attraction primarily or exclusively to members of one?s own sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identi...
, divorce
Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the marital status of being single....
, and illegitimacy. In the United States, scandals are often referred to with a -gate suffix, particularly political, recalling the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the only president to resign the office....
.

List of scandals

  • Corporate
    Corporation

    A corporation is a legal entity separate from the persons that form it. It is a legal entity owned by individual stockholders. In British tradition it is the term designating a body corporate, where it can be either a corporation sole or a corporation aggregate ....
     scandals
    Corporate scandal

    A corporate scandal is a scandal involving allegations of unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. A corporate scandal sometimes involves accounting fraud of some sort....
  • Journalistic scandals
  • Roman Catholic
    Roman Catholic Church

    The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
     sexual abuse
    Sexual abuse

    Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another. The offender is referred to as a molester/molestor/ abuser/sexual abuser....
     cases
    Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

    Allegations of child sexual abuse have been made against a variety of religious groups including but not exclusively Roman Catholic priests, monks, and nuns....
  • List of Christian evangelist scandals
  • List of scandals with "-gate" suffix