NCJ Number
190766
Date Published
March 2000
Length
68 pages
Annotation
These reports reviewed economic crime within participating countries and a changing society and the damage caused to government and the national economy, economic crime against the private sector, and economic crime against consumer and investors.
Abstract
These three reports presented in 1998 at the UNAFEI, 110th International Training Course on "Effective Countermeasures Against Economic Crime and Computer Crime" examined increased economic crime and its impact on participating countries in three specific areas of the national economy that included: (1) government; (2) private sector; and (3) consumers and investors. Within the first report on government, those areas discussed included: corruption; tax evasion; smuggling; and money laundering. In the second report on economic crime against the private sector, areas discussed included: (1) breach of trust, embezzlement, and fraud or fraudulent management by executive or staff of the enterprise; (2) infringement of intellectual property; (3) computer-related crime; and (4) difficulties commonly faced by criminal justice officers and suggested countermeasures. In the final report on economic crime against consumers and investors, areas discussed included: (1) the nature of crimes under study; (2) actual situation of crimes discussed; (3) problems relating to crimes under study; and (4) countermeasures. To successfully combat formidable economic crimes, every country, whether developed or developing, must as a first measure of defense, strengthen all the pillars of its criminal justice system. This will ensure that adequate and efficient manpower and mechanisms are in place to detect, investigate, prosecute, try and penalize ingenious offenders or syndicates.