| Abstract [eng] |
Criminal liability for theft is the strictest type of legal liability regulated in the criminal code of the Republic of Lithuania. Although theft is not the most dangerous, but it is the generally committed criminal offence against property, therefore the author of this master thesis seeks to analyze the statutory regulation of the criminal liability for theft in order to reveal and discuss its relevant aspects of the problems, which emerge or likely to emerge in the interpretation and application of the provisions of the criminal code (in legal practice as well as in criminal law theory). In order to achieve this aim the master thesis consists of five structural parts: in the first part the author examines the historical development of the concept of theft and its definition under the present criminal code and criminal law theory, the second and third parts contains the analysis of the objective and subjective elements of the main composition of theft, the forth – analysis of the aggravating features of theft, whereas in the fifth the legal consequences of committing theft are briefly discussed. In this master thesis the national criminal codes of the Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia are compared as well as Lithuanian and Russian criminal law theory is reviewed. Finally the author of this master thesis lists the conclusions by discussing the problems and providing their possible solutions. |
