Economic crime as a threat to the economic security of the state: conceptual and content provisions and properties

Abstract

Economic crime has an unconditional impact on the system of economic security of the state, because it is a destructive factor that destroys the system of economic relations at various levels both from the inside and from the outside. Considering the fact that economic crime is in the object-subject field of economic sciences and is a threat to the economic security of the state, it should be transferred to the field of economic sciences that study the economic security of the state. The analysis of scientific sources made it possible to group all approaches according to how they are interpreted by the authors, in particular: criminally punishable selfish actions; type of crimes; illegal activity; socio-economic phenomenon; intentional self-serving crimes; actions in the field of economic relations; violation of interests; sources of the shadow economy; selfish encroachments; intentional or negligent acts. The analysis of the above approaches to the interpretation of the meaning of the concept of «economic threats» made it possible to reveal its multi-vector nature, which is caused by the following: economic crimes are the object of various branches of law, in particular: economic, land, environmental, administrative, international and criminal; economic crimes are at the intersection of the interests of the totality of participants in social relations, in particular: enterprises; government agencies; financial and credit institutions; international organizations; NGOs; citizen and group of persons; economic crimes are the object of research of a set of sciences, in particular: economic, social, legal, public administration, technical. The awareness of the object-subject field of the definition of economic crime made it possible to propose that economic crimes should be understood as threats to the economic security of the state, which consist in the implementation of illegal economic activity (economic processes, relations, operations) or the violation of requirements for legal economic activity to satisfy the selfish interests of a person or groups of people.

Keywords

• economic crime
• types of crimes
• economic security