NCJ Number
80643
Date Published
1980
Length
411 pages
Annotation
The activities and accomplishments of the Economic Crime Project (ECP) of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) for the fifth grant period are discussed.
Abstract
The opening chapter provides a brief history of prior ECP efforts, summarizes the development of the current national strategy (to combat white-collar crime) initiative, and describes the goals and objectives of the current grant period. The primary objective of the ECP in the current grant period was to improve the overall capability of the criminal justice system to prevent, detect, and prosecute economic crime. The intention was to increase the effectiveness of local economic crime prosecution by (1) broadening the scope and character of economic crime violations, (2) maximizing the usefulness of support services through improved communication and liaison between prosecutors and investigative agencies, (3) tapping new resources for investigative support, and (4) executing prosecutive tasks in the area of white-collar crime so as to improve the overall effectiveness of criminal justice systems in this area. Program component efforts in the grant period are described, and a quantitative depiction of the investigative and prosecutive efforts of individual economic crime units is provided. Following a tracing of the ECP's national strategy efforts, the results of the first and second national strategy questionnaire administered in 1978 and 1979 are presented and discussed. Conclusions to be drawn from the project's experiences in the fifth grant period are provided in the final chapter. One of the most dramatic accomplishments was the formation of the Executive Working Group on Federal-State-Local Prosecutorial Relations, an outgrowth of increased NDAA cooperation with the National Association of Attorneys General. A description of the ECP reporting system is appended, along with the national strategy questionnaire. Tabular data, footnotes, flow charts, and 21 endnotes are provided. (Author summary modified)