Concept and role of damage for determining the consequences of property theft in criminal law of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

The article is devoted to the definition of penal consequences of the crime of property theft in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The share of this type of crimes in the total number of crimes in the Republic of Kazakhstan is very large and has a strong tendency to further growth, so the research of damage as a consequence of theft is important. In most modern legal systems the grading of crimes against property is based on the valuation of the stolen property as a mechanism for calculating damages. The author examines different points of view on this issue, beginning with consideration of the concept and structure of the overall economic and social costs of crime, reveals the economic concept of damage and costs, structure of the economic impact and costs borne by society to overcome the effects of crime and its prevention and then, going directly to damage from theft, explores the criminalization of theft in the legislations of different countries depending on the extent of damage, describes the procedures and methods for its calculation and generates its own vision of the formation of the mechanism of harming the property relations as the object of criminal law protection