Keyword: «embezzlement»

The article is devoted to the study of the category of "embezzlement" as the most common and dangerous type of property crimes due to the presence of a mandatory selfish purpose, which determines the quantitative and spatial characteristics and increased public danger of these criminal acts. The author defines the trends in the development of the system of criminal law regu-lation of property encroachments with signs of theft based on the analysis of the domestic criminal law doctrine of the past, taking into account the shortcomings and advantages of the criminal legislation of the Soviet and post-Soviet times represented by the codified acts of 1922, 1926 and 1960.