Asset forfeiture
The authorized seizure of money, negotiable instruments, securities, or other things of value
Bank fraud
Any fraud or embezzlement that occurs within or against financial institutions that are insured or regulated by the US government
Corporate crime
A violation of a criminal statute by an organization or its executives, employees, or agents acting on its behalf and for its benefit
Corporate fraud
A type of organizational fraud, such as accounting schemes, self-dealing by corporate executives, obstruction of justice, insider trading, kickbacks, and misuse of corporate property for personal use
Criminal enterprise
A group of individuals with an identified hierarchy engaged in significant criminal activities
Environmental crimes
A violation of the criminal law committed by businesses, business officials, organized entities, and/or individuals that damages some protected or otherwise significant aspect of the natural environment
Ethnic succession
The continuing process whereby one immigrant or ethnic group succeeds another by assuming its position in society
Green criminology
The study of environmental harm, crime, law, regulation, victimization, and justice
Insider trading
A type of equity trading based on confidential information about important events that may affect the price of the issue being traded
La Cosa Nostra
A criminal organization of Sicilian origin
Literally means "our thing
Mafia
A criminal organization of Sicilian origin
Also known as La Cosa Nostra
Money laundering
The process of converting illegally earned assets from cash to one or more alternative forms to conceal factors such as illegal origin and true ownership
Occupational crime
Any act punishable by law that is committed in the course of an individuals legal occupation
Organized crime
The unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services
Ponzi scheme
A form of high-yield-investment fraud that uses money collected from new investors, rather than profits from the purported underlying business venture, to pay high rates of return promised to earlier investors
RICO Act
A statute that was part of the federal Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 and that is intended to combat criminal conspiracies
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Officially known as the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act, requires thief executive officers and chief financial offices to personally vouch for the truth and fairness of their companies financial disclosures and establishes an
Securities and commodities fraud
A crime involving investments, such as stock-market manipulation, high-yield investment fraud
Securities fraud
The theft of money resulting from intentional manipulation of the value of equities, including stocks and bonds
Transnational organized crime
Any unlawful activity undertaken and supported by organized criminal groups operating across transnational boundaries
White-collar crime
Any violation of the criminal law committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his or her occupation