By the question of the definition «economic crime».

Abstract

This article is the result of the authors` complex investigation of such social and legal phenomenon as economic criminality. Economic crimes develop, their new types appear, methods of crimes are created on the modern stage of the world community development. These facts are alarming for us. The issue of effective struggle with crimes becomes more critical and actual, which in its turn is impossible without detailed and thorough investigation of the category of “economic criminality” itself. Opinions of different scientists-legislators concerning the issue of referring the certain crimes to the category of economic crimes are given in the present article. The authors made their own conclusions regarding the term of “economic criminality” on the basis of examination of these works.