NCJ Number
139067
Journal
EuroCriminology Volume: 1 Dated: (1987) Pages: 43-60
Date Published
1987
Length
18 pages
Annotation
Economic crime and its control and prevention continue to represent a problematic field and topic in Germany, and there is growing awareness of the risk and effects of economic crime.
Abstract
Economic crime can be divided into four offense groups: (1) offenses against the banking and stock exchange, credit, and insurance systems and against freedom in competition; (2) tax and duty evasion, custom offenses, subsidy fraud, inducement, and bribery; (3) violations of youth and labor protection legislation and social security law, as well as consumer-related and environmental offenses; and (4) fraud and profiteering. In contrast to conventional crime, economic crime mainly involves surveillance or control offenses. Relatively few criminal trials are conducted for economic crime, even though such crime accounts for a large number of individual cases. Economic crime shows a special tendency toward interdependence and internationalism. Changes to deal with economic crime in Germany through legislation are noted, along with investigatory reforms and innovations in substantive criminal law. 45 footnotes