Economic crime refers to the act of seeking illegal interests, violating national economic and administrative regulations and directly endangering national economic management activities in the fields of social and economic production, exchange, distribution and consumption, which is punished according to China's criminal law.

But if the circumstances are obvious, minor and harmless, it does not constitute a crime. Economic crime is a kind of crime, so it has the general attributes of crime, namely social harm and criminal illegality.

In criminal cases, if the law expressly stipulates that it is a criminal act, it shall be convicted and punished according to law; If the law does not clearly stipulate that it is a criminal act, it shall not be convicted and punished. All acts that endanger national sovereignty and disrupt social and economic order, as well as other acts that endanger society and should be punished according to law, are crimes, but if the circumstances are obviously minor and the harm is not great, they are not considered crimes.

2. Differences in characteristics

Economic crime has the following three characteristics:

(1) occurs in the economic field. That is, it occurs in the production, exchange, distribution and consumption of the national economy.

(2) Subjective intention and negligence do not constitute economic crimes, but generally have the purpose of seeking illegal interests.

(3) Economic management activities that directly endanger the country are different from property crimes that infringe property ownership.

Characteristics of criminal cases:

(1) The crime rate continues to "climb".

(2) The traditional types of common crimes continue to develop viciously.

(3) New crimes, such as smuggling, finance, taxation, intellectual property rights, company management order, market order and other economic crimes, computer crimes, terrorist crimes, etc. Cases that disrupt the market economic order appear frequently, especially economic crimes, which have almost become a common "normal" behavior in the economic field.

3, the difference between the charges involved

Economic cases include corruption, bribery, bribery, misappropriation of public funds, contract fraud, misappropriation of funds, job occupation, illegal absorption of public deposits, fund-raising fraud, illegal business, evasion of registered capital, letter of credit fraud, manipulation of securities and futures trading prices, smuggling of ordinary goods, false advertisements, infringement of trade secrets and other crimes.

Criminal cases include crimes of endangering national security, public security, disrupting the order of socialist market economy, infringing citizens' personal rights, disrupting social management order, endangering national defense interests, corruption and bribery, dereliction of duty and so on.

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