PECULIARITIES OF USING THE TERMS “ГРАБЕЖ” AND “ROBBERY” IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW

Authors

  • Tatyana Olegovna Vanina Ural branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation
  • Tatyana Gennadievna Goloshchapova South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14529/law170301

Keywords:

грабеж, robbery, property offence, use of force, open or clandestine seizure of property

Abstract

The article analyses peculiarities of using the terms “грабеж” and “robbery” in the
Russian and English criminal law, considers different variants of translating some terms
concerning particular kinds of crimes against property, deals with the main distinctions
between the criteria of classification of these kinds of property offences in the Russian
and English criminal law (use of force; threat of use of force or attempt to use that
threat; open or clandestine seizure of property; factor of time and place etc.), considers
such a specific institute of the English and American criminal law as “burglary, as well
as performs the comparative analysis of punishments for these kinds of property offences
provided for in the English and Russian criminal law.

Author Biographies

Tatyana Olegovna Vanina, Ural branch of the Russian State University of Justice, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Candidate of Science (Education), Associate Professor of the Department
of Humanities and Social-Economic Sciences

Tatyana Gennadievna Goloshchapova, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation

Candidate of Science (Philology), Associate Professor
of the Department of Training and Management in Law Enforcement

References

Collins dictionary of law / W.J. Stewart. Credo Reference (Firm) 3rd ed. Glasgow [Scotland]: Collins, 2006. URL: http://findit.library. gwu.edu/item/13356189.

Кража и иные преступления, связанные с похищением имущества в уголовном праве Англии. URL: http://isfic.info/forug/ zarug16. htm.

Published

2018-02-16