The Concurrence of Provisions in the Criminal Law of Ukraine

Abstract

Special  difficulties  in  executing  criminal  law  are  caused  by  non  typical  situations  in  its  application,  one  of  which  is  known  as  the  concurrence  of  criminal  law  provisions.  The  cases  in  which  a given  socially  harmful  act  is  described  simultaneously  by  two  or  more  criminal  provisions  almost  always  cause  problems  connected  with  properly  choosing  that  provision  which  should  be  applied  in  that  specific  case.  As  a result  the  authors  maintain  that  the  concurrence  of  criminal  provisions  is  a situation  which  is  met  only  when  solving  problems  connected  with  the  proper  criminal  law  qualification.

The  article  discusses  various  approaches  to  the  concurrence  of  provisions  in  criminal  law  literature;
 the  definition  of  the  concurrence  of  provisions  is  presented  as  well  as  the  classification  of  types  of  provision  concurrence;  the  authors  also  discuss  the  rules  of  legal  qualification  in  case  of  provision  concurrence,  etc.
 
The  authors  of  this  paper  consider  the  concurrence  of  provisions  to  be  an  atypical  situation  in  the  application  of  law  (caused  by  the  presence  in  the  criminal  law  body  of  at  least  two  criminal  law  norms),  when  during  the  criminal  law  evaluation  of  one  socially  dangerous  act  two  or  more  active  criminal  law  norms  which  are  functionally  connected  concur  to  be  applied.