Rules of criminal liability for corruption offences and their 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.

Normalising a Ukrainian Intellectual Identity in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Marko Vovchok (1833-1907)

“…The content of Marko Vovchok's stories is widely familiar. In the eleven Peasant Tales, and several subsequent Ukrainian-language stories published in the first half of the 1860s, peasants suffer at the hands of landowners, 13 peasant women suffer under the sexual predation of noblemen, 14 but also from their own powerlessness in a violent patriarchal peasant society; 15 and almost all characters, oppressed and oppressors alike, suffer psychological trauma and depression connected to their role in a wicked society. 16 There is never overt ideological preaching in these stories -the narrators are figured as straightforward people who truthfully recount events and feelings and make judgments without drawing political conclusions from their experiences.…”