Criminal business as a feature of the organized crime

Criminal business, being a major feature of the organized crime, assumes perpetration of crimes connected with the criminal sector of shadow economy, providing for the financial existence of criminal groups and their accomplices. Criminal groups can commit other crimes of primary activity character (murder of a leader of the rival criminal group), or of casual character (acts of hooliganism at leisure), as the overall objective of criminal groups' activity is profit making. Criminal business develops from a system of crimes committed with the purpose of profit making in the spheres of manufacture, distribution, exchange of the material and spiritual assets (goods), work performance and services rendering with the purpose of reproduction of criminal economic relations. The criteria for classification of the crimes forming criminal business are the character of their legal estimation, the branch of economy where they are committed, the target orientation of criminal acts. According to the first criterion all the crimes forming criminal business are divided into three groups: 1. crimes, which represent criminally-legal violations of the procedure of legal business activity; 2. crimes, which represent business activity connected with subjects withdrawn from or limited in civil circulation, or specific business activity essentially infringing interests of the society and the state in its content; 3. criminal business activity, which under no circumstances is legal business. Thus, criminal business as an organised crime feature is the system of crimes committed for the purpose of profit making in diverse spheres. Classification of crimes that form criminal business, depending on the branch of economy where they are committed, is important

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