Reasons to establish the criminal liability for theft by way of the official privileges misuse

Abstract

Article reveals the nature and content of such a theft as an independent form of abuse of power and socio-political foundations of establishing criminal prohibitions for this criminal behavior in the property sector. Criminal legal justification for the criminalization of the method of theft has been given. Concepts of «abuse of office» and «abuse of power» have been distinguished. The author substantiates the idea of self-indication in the text of the Criminal Code for theft by use of the official authority as a special kind of violence forms.