Introduction: due to the complex legal structure of the rule of Art. 158.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the issues of legal liability for petty theft in practice cause difficulties related to the qualification of the offense. Due to the lack of a normative definition of the term "petty theft", there is no unified practice of applying the legislative amendment in the criminal law. Materials and Methods: general scientific and private scientific methods such as studying, analysis, generalization, comparison and also comparison were used. Results: the documents of court practice, criminal procedure and administrative tort statistics of law-enforcement bodies and also separate standards of the Criminal Code and Code of Administrative Offences allowed to reveal a number of the problems requiring the legislative amendment. Discussion and Conclusions: necessity of legislative completion of the questions connected with criminal liability for petty thefts is revealed, the options promoting solution of the problem are suggested.
melkoe hischenie, formy hischeniya, ugolovnaya otvetstvennost', administrativnaya otvetstvennost', obschestvennaya opasnost'
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