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berigelseskriminalitet

English translation: Acquisitive category of crime or crime of acquisition

12:49 Mar 23, 2004
Danish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Social Sciences - Other
Danish term or phrase: berigelseskriminalitet
This is found in an EU document on drug abuse in the following sentence. For eksempel påvises der en sammenhæng mellem alkohol og voldskriminalitet og mellem opioidmisbrug og berigelseskriminalitet.
ScanTran
Local time: 07:53
English translation:Acquisitive category of crime or crime of acquisition
Explanation:
Pretty sure that this is what it is.

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Note added at 20 mins (2004-03-23 13:09:26 GMT)
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I should have put \'crimes of acquisition\' (ie plural)
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Eliza-Anna
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:54
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3Crime against property
Christine Andersen
5get rich quick schemes
Suzanne Blangsted (X)
3 +2Acquisitive category of crime or crime of acquisition
Eliza-Anna
4 +1offence against property
Pernille Chapman
4financial crime
KirstyMacC (X)


Discussion entries: 1





  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
get rich quick schemes


Explanation:
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Suzanne Blangsted (X)
Local time: 23:54
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 78

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Anna Haxen: Det behøver vel ikke altid at være kriminelt? Berigelseskriminalitet er bare et fint ord for tyveri.
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Acquisitive category of crime or crime of acquisition


Explanation:
Pretty sure that this is what it is.

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Note added at 20 mins (2004-03-23 13:09:26 GMT)
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I should have put \'crimes of acquisition\' (ie plural)

Eliza-Anna
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:54
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anna Haxen
1 hr
agree  Susanne Gustavsson: The correct use in this context is "acquisitive crime" - BTW: try to Google "acquisitive crime" to see how and where it's used :0)
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33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Crime against property


Explanation:
'Berigelsesforbrydelse' is given as a crime against property.

It is also a blanket term for any form of 'unlawful gain'

http://www.cnworld.dk/Advokatbrevkassen/svar37.html
Under berigelseskriminalitet falder eksempelvis tyveri, hæleri, bedrageri m.v.


    Helle Pals Frandsen: Juridisk ordbog dansk - engelsk
Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 08:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 66

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anna Haxen
1 hr
agree  Roald Toskedal
1 hr
agree  hirselina: yes "property crime"
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
financial crime


Explanation:
includes money laundering and (confiscation of) proceeds of crime.

Unjust enrichment 'offences' are really
within the civil ('quasi-contract') and not criminal orbit.




    Reference: http://www.interpol.int/Public/FinancialCrime/Default.asp
KirstyMacC (X)
Local time: 07:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Anna Haxen: Doesn't necessarily have to do with money. Berigelseskriminalitet is simply taking and keeping something that doesn't belong to you.
26 mins
  -> I see. Then 'misappropriation or unjust enrichment' crime, after all.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
offence against property


Explanation:
Just another suggestion, included mostly because it's in my dictionary. Generally, I agree with Anna's comments: from the context, it looks like it's not terribly important to get the correct legal term. What the text tries to say is that there's a link between drug abuse and crime; surely such criminals are more likely to be involved in "straightforward" theft than any more advanced level of financial crime.


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Pernille Chapman
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:54
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Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christine Andersen: they are in fact desperate to find any way of getting money for drugs, so they steal and sell whatever they can get their hands on. The term includes fencing and buying stolen goods as well.
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