Police and Security, Vol. 18 No. 1, 2009.
Professional paper
Economic crime in the Criminal code - modus operandi (the economic aspect)
Ante Orlović
; Police Academy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author briefly introduces explanations about the concept and characteristics of economic crime. Emergent forms of this type of crime are heterogeneous, and it can be used in a work, as the starting basis for further consideration, showing the separation of the economic crimes which have been taken from the two relevant resources. The author gives his own categorization of economic crimes in the Criminal Code and he classifying them according to modus operandi. This approach suggests that economic crime is manifested throughout a series of speciflc actions of the perpetrators of which are explicitly contained in the actual names of criminal offences. This concept embraces the numerous types of offences which we are facing in a daily work namely abuse, fraud, forgery, bribery, harmful contract, infringement of rights or obligations, or acting negligently in a way that they provide economic connotations and descriptions of the contents of some typical offences of the above mentioned categories, and among others the five economic crimes which have in their names linguistic construction "in economic operations". Finally, the author says that ending economic criminality is not enough researched phenomenon and because of that a scientific approach should be focused on research definitions, phenomenology, etiology, detection and consequences of economic crime as well as the reaction of society tovvards to this negative phenomena.
Keywords
economic crimes; modus operandi; abuse; fraud; forgery; bribery; harmful contract; infringement of rights or obligations; non conscience treatment
Hrčak ID:
79314
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2009.
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