The document defines criminal offenses under Ukrainian law. A criminal offense is a socially dangerous act prohibited by the Criminal Code that is committed with guilt. Criminal offenses are classified by their gravity as minor, medium, grave, or special grave. The document also analyzes crime statistics from 2014-2015, finding increases in serious offenses involving firearms and assaults but decreases in sexual offenses. It concludes more action is needed to prevent the rising crime trends.

1. Completed by:
Svitlana Shapoval
3 student course
spec. 6508/1, 1 group

2. Target
To define the nature of criminal offenses and
characterize elements of criminal offenses
and to classify the types of criminal offenses.
Although to retrace and to analyze crimes
commitment dynamics in 2014-2015 years

3. Criminal
offense
Meaning that provided by Article 11. “Notion of a
criminal offense” of Criminal Code of Ukraine:
“ A criminal offense shall mean a socially dangerous
culpable act (action or omission) prescribed by this
Code and committed by an offender ”.
A criminal offense always is an act of the offender
which impinges at most important social relationships,
that were established and that were defined and
applied by social community, afterwards these
relationships are defended by criminal laws.

4. It is an dangerous social act that has an
constituent elements of offense defined in
Criminal Code of Ukraine principal has
committed.

5. Social danger
Illegality
Guiltiness
Punishability
Means that action or omission does harm or
creates offense to do harm to objects that are
protected by criminal laws
Means that a criminal offense is only that act,
what directly provided by criminal laws
Means that an act shall be interpreted as a
crime only if the actions of a person contain guilt
as criminal design or carelessness
Means that an act shall be classified as a crime
only if this act has some kind and scale of
punishment provided by criminal law

6. Depending on
gravity of
offence
Depending on
grade of finalization
of criminal act
Depending on
motive of
offense
Depending on
subsumer
Depending on
form of guilt

7. shall mean an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term up
to two years or a more lenient penalty by way of money fine in
the amount of three or more thousands of tax-free minimum
incomes.
shall mean an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term up
to five years.
The main penalty for such offense is money fine in the amount of
up to ten thousand tax-free minimum incomes.
shall mean an offense punishable by imprisonment for a term up
to ten years.
The main penalty for such offense is money fine in the amount of
up to twenty five thousand tax-free minimum incomes.
shall mean an offense punishable by more than ten years of
imprisonment or a life sentence
The main penalty for such offense is money fine in the amount of
twenty five or more thousand tax-free minimum incomes.
A minor
criminal
offense
A medium
grave offense
A grave
criminal
offense
A special
grave offense

8. Intent criminal
offence
Reckless
criminal offense
Shall mean the socially injurious
act (action or omission) under
criminal law committed by
person that was conscious of the
socially injurious nature of his/her
act, anticipated its socially
injurious consequences, and
wished or did not wish them.
Shall mean the act (action or
omission) that may have socially
injurious consequences under
criminal law committed by the
person that anticipated that
his/her act may have socially
injurious consequences, but
carelessly expected to avoid them
or did not anticipate that his/her
act may have socially injurious
consequences, although ought to
and could anticipate them.

9. CRIMES AGAINST NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE;
CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST LIFE AND HEALTH OF A
PERSON;
CRIMINAL OFFENSES AGAINST LIBERTY, HONOR AND
DIGNITY OF A PERSON.

10. offense based on mercenary motives
offense based on private vengeance
offense based on hooligan motives

11. A consummated
criminal offense
An
unconsummated
criminal offense
shall mean an offense which comprises all
elements of a criminal offense as prescribed
by the relevant article of the Special Part of
Criminal Code of the Republic of Ukraine
shall mean the preparation for crime and
criminal attempt

12. 1
2
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The preparation for the crime shall mean the looking out or
adapting means and tools, or looking for accomplices to, or
conspiring to, an offense, removing of obstacles to an offense, or
otherwise intended conditions of an offense
A criminal attempt shall mean a director intended act (action or
omission) made by a person and aimed directly at the
commission of a criminal offense prescribed by the relevant
article of the Special Part of Criminal Code, where this criminal
offense has not been consummated for reasons beyond that
person's control
A consummated criminal offense shall mean an offense which
comprises all elements of a criminal offense as prescribed by the
relevant article of the Special Part of Criminal Code of Ukraine

14. Comparing January-February period of past years with the
same period of this year got raised count of special grave offenses
in two thousand and five offenses. Although getting raised count of
medium grave offenses and grave criminal offenses.
Amount of usage of runs and other firing weapons during
committing offenses got raised in two times.
Count of sexual offenses got reduced. Count of assaults
with an intend to rob got raised almost in two thousand.
Plunder cases and auto theft cases got raised, especially
the count of auto thefts got raised almost in two times.

15. Conclusion
Thus, we have defined the concept of
"crime", also named elements of crime and its
types. Was shown crimes statistics for 2014-2015
years and was made a comparative analysis of
changes in its dynamics.
Total crime statistics show that crime is
increasing. Therefore, we must take immediate
action to prevent this growth process.

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