Considerations regarding the criminality in the business field

• Author: Laura Dumitrana Bosca Rath
• Position: AGORA University, Oradea
• Pages: 39-43

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CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING THE CRIMINALITY IN THE

BUSINESS FIELD

Assist. Laura – Dumitrana Bosca Rath

AGORA University, Oradea

Abstract:

Business and businesspeople have always existed and will exist forever. As

society progresses thanks to its scientific discoveries, the criminal businessman will

continue to shock the public opinion through his ingenuity, intelligence and,

sometimes, easiness in committing an offence. The more intelligent is the criminal

businessman, the more elaborate and hard to uncover will be the offence he has

committed.

In today’s society, we are hoping and expecting that the efforts to impose the

law should become so powerful as to overwhelm those who favour the violation of

the law.

Most worrying are the offences in the field of informatics. We are glad to see

that technique and technology have progressed so much, that we are actually

witnessing a digital revolution. These are great achievements for mankind

(performing, in record time, a multitude of transactions, affairs and

communications with any parts of the world), but, at the same time, new and wide

horizons have opened for the offenders who exploit these informatics networks for

the purpose of achieveing profit, having the possibility to produce enormous

frauds. This new type of criminal offence does not only threaten bank accounts,

business dealings between companies and individuals, but it also represents a real

danger for large worldwide concerns and even for state security.

Criminal offences in the business field are more frequent in a state facing an

economic and social crisis, as the case has been so many times for Romania since

1989. We have often witnessed a void of power, a void of justice and lawfulness.

The bodies entitled to pursue criminal procedure and the judicial system will

be forced to adapt, to understand the way that business offenders operate, to adopt

new techniques and establish new methods of approaching justice.

Key words: business, criminality, businesspeople, financial

Dear readers, I will start this article by presenting the explanation that The

Dictionary of the Romanian Language provides for the terms ”business“ and

”businessperson“.