ECONOMIC CRIME: CONCEPT AND FEATURES

Abstract

This article represents result of the complex research conducted by authors of such social and legal phenomenon as economic crime. At the present stage of development of the world community economic crimes evolve, their new types, commission methods appear. These facts cannot but cause concerns. Due to the tendencies observed in underworld, more and more sharp and actual is the question of effective fight against them that, in turn, is impossible without detailed and comprehensive investigation of the category like “economic crime”. Over a long period of time, economic crime as a criminological category has undergone changes. The term “corporate crime” has been used for a long time in foreign criminology, in the Soviet literature – the term “economic crime”. At the moment, discussions are also continuing, since, according to one of the hypotheses, it is also necessary to include criminal offenses against property in the group of economic criminal offenses. In this article views of different academic lawyers concerning the issue of reference of specific criminal actions to category of the economic are given. On the basis of researching of these works authors made own conclusions concerning the term “economic crime”. Key words: economic crime, managerial crime, corporate crime, property, economic relations, shadow economy.