Polukarov A.V. Foreign experience of struggle against corruption-related crimes in the social sphere

Abstract: The article studies corruption-related crimes in the social sphere. The author notes the common feature of corruption-related crimes in this sphere in Russia and abroad – the absence of special components of corruption-related crimes in the social sphere. Indeed, the legislation of Russia and foreign state doesn’t provide special components of corruption-related crimes in the social sphere. The only exceptions are the acts of corruption in particular public functions (for example, in delivery of justice). In such cases, special components of corruption-related crimes are separated on the base of the peculiarities of a subject or an object of a crime and are limited to performing the functions in the sphere of delivery of justice, electoral law, military service, etc. The research methodology is based on the dialectical method with its requirements for objectivity, comprehensiveness, historicism and the specificity of truth. The author applies general scientific methods, including the methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison and measurement. Among special methods, the author uses formal legal and comparative legal methods. The author finds out that in the states with the prevailing private sector of the economy, there are practically no corruption-related crimes on the basic level, i.e. on the level of interaction between a student or a patient with a teacher or a doctor, since most corruption-related crimes are committed on the level of subjects interacting with public authorities (private clinic, private educational institutions, etc.). 

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