PECULIARITIES OF USING THE TERMS “ГРАБЕЖ” AND “ROBBERY” IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW

Abstract

The article analyses peculiarities of using the terms “грабеж” and “robbery” in the
Russian and English criminal law, considers different variants of translating some terms
concerning particular kinds of crimes against property, deals with the main distinctions
between the criteria of classification of these kinds of property offences in the Russian
and English criminal law (use of force; threat of use of force or attempt to use that
threat; open or clandestine seizure of property; factor of time and place etc.), considers
such a specific institute of the English and American criminal law as “burglary, as well
as performs the comparative analysis of punishments for these kinds of property offences
provided for in the English and Russian criminal law.