Moskovoy, V.V. Confiscation of property as other means of criminal law character: some problems of theory and legislative expression.

Abstract: Topicality of this study is due to the fact that confiscation of property as a criminal law measure is a new institution of criminal law and its new status causes much dispute among the scientists, as well as many problems in its implementation, which are due to the very construction of this institution of the criminal law. Much attention is devoted to the issue of the necessity of this institution in the Russian law. It is then noted, that this institution has many years of history, the author then provides analysis of various points of view on this issue. The article includes analysis of the foreign experience, which in the author’s point of view, has influenced the current status of confiscation of property as an other measure of criminal law.

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