Fraud is a widely-spread offence against property. The article studies issues on improving criminal and legal law on liability for fraud for the purpose of enhancing efficiency in crime prevention. Problems of implementation of new laws on fraud (cl.cl. 159—1596 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) remain unsolved. The author analyzes characteristics of common and special fraud components, and provides different judgments on the issue, published in legal literature. The author puts forward proposals on optimization of criminal legislation in this area.
Criminal legislation, public security, fraud, classification of offences, punishment.
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