First, many of the crimes we have been considering
are dealt with in specialized, regulatory portions of state
and federal law rather than in the criminal law proper. For
example, securities fraud is dealt with in the part of the U.S.
Code dealing with securities law, tax evasion in sections dealing
with tax law, criminal price-fixing in the antitrust provisions, and
environmental crimes in the titles dealing with environmental
law. Because such offenses are codified separately from “real
crimes,” they are perhaps less likely to be thought of as real
crimes.