Innovative Ideas and Criminal Thoughts: The Difference between Crowdfunding and Terrorism Financing

Abstract

Crowdfunding is a new topic in management science, which means collecting funds to advance projects through popular contributions. This phenomenon, in order to attract public assistance in honoring new ideas and creative minds, calls for its operationalization in the community; However, there is a narrow difference in attracting public assistance for criminal acts, especially terrorism financing. In the financing of terrorism, the collection of funds or assets for the delivery of terrorist individuals or terrorist organizations can be of legal origin and popular assistance; therefore, the challenge of this article is that In a tangible criminal policy How should the distinction between innovative ideas and criminal thought be clarified? This paper, by examining the characteristics of crowdfunding, on the one hand, and the expression of the components of terrorism financing, on the other hand, has achieved that what determines this difference is the purpose of financing, not its origin and easing in source, along with the control of the destination (and not mere inquiring into the intentions of the citizens), can be a plan to support crowdfunding in society to fertilize ideas along with haltering the financing of terrorism.

Keywords

• crowdfunding
• terrorism financing
• money laundering
• attracting financial aid
• destination of financial aid