Minor Commercial Bribery as a Manifestation of Corruption

Authors: Mironova G. N.

Citation: Mironova G. N. Minor Commercial Bribery as a Manifestation of Corruption. Psychopedagogy in Law Enforcement. No 1(72). 2018. Pp. 21–24. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-11004.

Для цитирования: Миронова Г. Н. Мелкий коммерческий подкуп как проявление коррупции // Психопедагогика в правоохранительных органах. 2018. № 1(72). С. 21–24. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-11004.

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Abstract

Corruption as a multifaceted social phenomenon is considered as a threat to the national security of the state.  For the non-state sector of the economy, it is a threat to the corporate security of business. It is the non-state sector of the economy  that suffers from small commercial bribery (the privileged composition of commercial bribery) and commercial bribery due to its  prevalence. There are different approaches to understanding corruption. In order to combat it, states adopt national legislative acts,  but, taking into account the worldwide nature of this negative social phenomenon, measures aimed at combating corruption are  reflected in international normative legal acts. In theory and practice, there are different approaches to the content of the concepts  of «bribery» and «corruption», they are interpreted in a narrow and broad sense. The author adheres to a broad interpretation of the  concept of «corruption». In the historical perspective, the judicial interpretation of corruption crimes is given differently, there are  different approaches to the designated categories proposed in the doctrine of criminal law. Minor commercial bribery has signs of  a crime of corruption. The analysis of the scientific literature, law enforcement and regulatory legal acts makes it possible to come  to the conclusion about the correct classifying of this type of crime by the legislator as the crime violating social relations in the  economic sphere and reasonable securing of such a crime as minor commercial bribery in chapter 23 of the Criminal Code of the  Russian Federation, section 8 «Crimes in the economic sphere».

Keywords: minor commercial bribery, bribery, corruption, «getting accustomed» to corruption, corruption in a narrow  and broad sense, national and international legislation on combating corruption.

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Submitted: 30.09.2017