Oxford English Dictionary:

"Law is the body of role, whether formally enacted or customary, whish a state or community recognises as binding on its members or subjects"

Pasal 33 ayat (4) UUD 1945

Perekonomian nasional diselenggarakan berdasar atas demokrasi ekonomi dengan prinsip kebersamaan, efisiensi berkeadilan, berkelanjutan, berwawasan lingkungan, kemandirian, serta dengan menjaga keseimbangan kemajuan dan kesatuan ekonomi nasional. 

Edmund W Kitsch, " Economic Crime":

Economic crime ..as crime undertaken fo economic motives  

Economic crime as criminal activity with significant similarities to the economic activity of normal, non criminal business.

Characteristic of economical crime (Johannes Andenaes, 1983):

1. Economic offenses are offenses committed in the course of an economic  activity, which in itself is, or at least pretens to be, a normal and legal business activity. This excludes from the concept economic which is in itself illegal, such as illegal gambling, trading in narcotics or organized prostitution.

2. Economics offenses are offenses which violet the interest of the state or society in general, not only individual victim. Economic crimes are business crime, but not all business crime are economic crimes in this sence. Ordinary cases of fraud or embezzlement are exclude.

3. Economics crime including also offenses committed in business life against other business firms or against private individuals, or at least some types of such offenses. 

Criminal Prime Pattern (Kitch):

• consist of crime committed by businessman as an adjunk to their regular business activites . it is called as "white collar crime".

• The provision of illegal goods and services of provision of goods and services in an illegal manner. it called as organized crime.

Criminal Crime as Special Interest (Kitch:1983):

1. The economics crime adopts methods of operation that are difficult to distinguish from normal commercial behavior;

2. Economic crime may involve the participation of economically successfull individual of otherwise upright community standing;

3. Many economic crimes present special challenges to prosecutors, to the criminal justice system, and to civil liberties.

Economic crime are often committed by individuals of high social and economic standing as e result of interaction between several factor namely:

1. individuals with background in productive enterprise have a large comparative advantage in the commission of certain kinds of economic crime;

2. Goverment regulatory or tax regimes often create conditions that make their violations extraordinary profitable;

3. The criminal conduct  may be difficult to distinguish morally from legal activity.

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Types of Criminal Crime (Kitch, 1983):

1. Property Crimes as an acts that threaten property held by private person or by stale;

2. Regulatory Crimes are actions violate government regulations;

3. Tax Crimes are violations of the liability or reporting requirement of tax laws.

Menurut pendapat Douglass C. North, mengatakan bahwa kunci memahami peranan hukum dalam mengembangkan atau bahkan menekan pertumbuhan ekonomi terletak pada konsep ekonomi seperti apakah Transaction Cost 

Hukum dalam Pembangunan mempunyai empat fungsi, sebagai sarana pemeliharaan ketertiban dan keamanan , sebagai sarana pembangunan , ebagai sarana penegak keadilan 

J.D. Ny Hart mengemukakan adanya enam konsep dalam ilmu hukum yang mempunyai pegaruh bagi perkembangan ekonomi, yang termasuk salah satu konsep tersebut adalah predikbilitas

Peranan hukum dalam perkembangan perekonomian sangat penting bahkan boleh dikatakan bahwa segala macam bentuk tindakan dalam bidang perekonomian untuk kekuatan berlakunya harus berlandaskan pada hukum positif masing-masing, misalnya Dalam bidang keuangan/perbankan harus berlandaskan pada undang-undang yaitu undang-undang no. 34 tahun 1967, Undang-undang no.13 tahun 1968 Undang-undang no.17 tahun 1968 Undang-undang no.21 tahun 1968 dan peraturan perundangan berikutnya sebagai peraturan pelaksanaannya. 

Peraturan yang lahir sebagai kebijakan-kebijakan pemerintah dalam kegiatan ekonomi haruslah sejalan dengan aturan tertinggi sebagai konstitusi Negara Indonesia sehingga dapat dikatakan sebagai aturan yang sinkron satu sama lain. Ketentuan yang mengatur ekonomi kerakyatan di Indonesia terdapat dalam konstitusi UUD 1945. Hal tersebut tercantum dalam Pasal berapakah dalam UUD 1945  33