Rules of criminal liability for corruption offences and their prevention

Borovyk  Andrii; Inna Vartyletska; Yuliia Vasylenko; Andrii Patyk; Olena Pochanska

Borovyk Andrii Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Justice of Academician Stepan Demianchuk International University of Economics and Humanities
Inna Vartyletska Department of the National Academy of Internal Affairs
Yuliia Vasylenko Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics of Kyiv Institute of Intellectual Property and Law of the National University «Odessa Law Academy»
Andrii Patyk the National Academy of Internal Affairs
Olena Pochanska Department of Legal Support of Economic Activity of the Faculty №6 of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs

Keywords: criminal offences ofcorruption, international anti-corruption standards, Ukrainian experience in the fight against corruption, criminal liability, crime prevention

Abstract

The objective of the article is to conduct a comparative legal study of Ukrainian and international standards of criminal liability for corruption offences and their prevention. The research methodology includes the following methods: system-structural method, formal-dogmatic method, historical method, grouping method, comparative-legal method, legal modeling method and others. As a result, the peculiarities of anti-corruption regulatory-legal provisions and police practice in the states analyzed are clarified, with the selection of relevant positive and negative trends, principles of construction of anti-corruption policy, specificity of the conceptual apparatus, etc. Emphasis is placed on the need to further harmonize Ukrainian legislation with international agreements and the practice of their implementation. It is concluded that negative trends in foreign countries have been found to be the result of non-compliance with relevant commitments to combat and prevent corruption.

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