The concept and typical forms of economic crime

Abstract

There are different concepts of economic crime by each sciences and it shows resemblances with other types of crimes. The colloquial definition embraces every crimes, infringements, unethical attitudes, which results in gaining unlawful economic benefits by the economic actors. The Criminal Code gives a guide for the criminal law`s definition. In criminology it has a wider range than in the criminal law. The vernacular often use “whitecollar crime” as a synonym for it. Distinguishing economic crime from crime against property is extremely hard since both types of crime violate the financial relations.