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At this point, a Romanian company has far more incentives to activate in the shadow economy than it has to operate legally & legitimately. Economic crime is directly related to the lack of economic reforms, the slow peace of privatization, & the weak legal framework. Economic crime in Romania characterized by the emergence of organized criminal gangs. There are connections within this community that have important impacts on money laundering, terrorist activities, & counterfeiting. Adapted from the source document.

The activities of criminal justice systems focus almost entirely upon the crimes of the relatively powerless. If this relative downplaying of the crimes of the powerful is both a ubiquitous and long-term phenomenon, it has become more pronounced in a period marked by 'globalization', within which states are less rather than more likely to regulate business. In this research note, we report upon a recent initiative in Finland, aimed at controlling economic crime, an initiative that is important for at least two reasons. First, because it indicates that attempts at such control are at least possible and, second, because it allows us to identify some of the preconditions for such an initiative to be put into place. We set out some of the basic elements of the crime control initiative before turning to examine how and why this control initiative was able to emerge. Finally, we consider what implications can be drawn from this.