Lazitsky Prokhor Antonovich

The article examines certain issues related to the qualification and criminal prosecution of persons who have committed bribery. The study analyzes the validity of the legislator's approach to differentiating liability for bribe-taking based on the amount of the bribe, relying on the analysis of the object and the objective elements of the crime, as well as on the approaches adopted in the legislation of several foreign countries. The main conclusions of the research emphasize the necessity of revising the criteria for assessing bribe-taking in order to determine its social danger and shifting the focus from the formal criterion of the amount of the bribe to the qualitative characteristics of the act. Such an approach will ensure the implementation of the principle of justice in criminal law when imposing liability for bribe-taking

crime prevention, interpretation of criminal law, social danger of crime, bribery, extortion of a bribe.

Lazitsky Prokhor Antonovich – Postgraduate Student of the Department of Criminal Law, Institute of Law, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), ORCID: 0009-0007-5327-7459, RSCI Author ID: 1279022, e-mail: prohlaz@gmail.com

Lazitsky P.A. Problemy differentsiatsii ugolovnoy otvetstvennosti za vzyatochnichestvo po priznaku razmera vzyatki [Problems of differentiation of criminal liability for bribery based on its amount]. Sibirskij yuridicheskij vestnik [Siberian Law Herald]. 2026, no 3 (114), pp. 88–94. – DOI 10.26516/2071-8136.2026.3.88 (in Russian)

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