CRIMINOLOGICAL PORTRAIT OF THE EMPLOYEE OF THE ENTERPRISE, INSTITUTION OR OR GANIZATION WHO RECEIVED ILLEGAL BENEFITS

Abstract

The article analyzes socio-demographic characteristics of offender commits a crime under part 3, 4 of article 354 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine «Bribery of employee of the enterprise, institution or organization», namely the receipt by the employee of the enterprise, institution or organization which is not a service person or a person working in favor of the enterprise, institution or organization, illegal benefit. This offence relates to corruption.

Ascertain the phenomenon of «corruption» is impossible without in-depth study of the characteristics of the individual that commits the crime of corruption, which in turn will help to understand the causes of individual criminal behavior and the causes of corruption offenses.

To identify these properties and characteristics, the author has studied and analyzed convictions (43 offers) in respect of 45 persons convicted of offences under article 354 of the Сriminal Code of Ukraine, contained in the Unified state register of court decisions of Ukraine in the period from 2011 to the present time (April 2017).

Analyzed these socio-demographic characteristics as gender, age, nationality, occupation, criminal record, education, marital status.

Based on the study of these signs is composed of criminological portrait of the person committing a crime under article 354 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Thus, an employee of the enterprise, institution or organization which is not official that received illegal benefits, that face as male (58 %) and female (48 %) gender, full age, citizen of Ukraine, not previously sentenced, with the highest (76 %) or secondary education (24 %), usually married (72 %), one third of prisoners had minor children. By occupation the majority of persons are employees of medical institutions (60 %), in second place – workers of educational institutions (18 %), the third place is occupied by workers in the field of sports (7 %).