DIFFERENTIATION OF THE CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR ABUSE OF AUTHORITY UNDER CRIMINAL CODE OF UKRAINE
Journal: Visnyk of the Lviv University Series Law
Year: 2016

The article examines the problem of differentiation of criminal responsibility for abuse of authority. It examines the criteria for differentiation of criminal responsibility for abuse committed by officials following the amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine made in 2011 by the law № 3207-VI dated April 7, 2011. The article analyses the appropriateness of criminal responsibility differentiation in examined group of crimes bearing in mind the criteria selected by Ukrainian legislators. Whil