CATEGORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL INTERPRETATIONS OF CRIMINAL LEGAL PROTECTION OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

Abstract

The article deals with the issues related to the interpretation of certain terms which are most often used in the course of studying the problems of criminal legal protection of foreign economic activity (FEA). In particular, the author elucidates the etymology of the terms “categorical”, “conceptual”, “interpretation”, “protection”, “globalization”, “foreign economic activity”, etc., and also attempts to clarify the historical emergence and development of some of them.

The author traces the historical origins of the concepts of “globalization” and “foreign economic activity” and the dissemination of such negative phenomena as “white-collar” and transnational crime in Ukraine and across the world, which are the highest level of criminal evolution.

The article also reveals that due to the increase in the scale of foreign economic activity, the number of criminal proceedings committed in the field of foreign economic activity has significantly increased. Among them is “commodity smuggling”, which contributes to the active development of illicit trafficking in drugs, weapons, counterfeit currency, illegal movement of strategically important goods, historical and cultural values, valuable forest species, etc., across the customs border of Ukraine.

The original author's understanding of the concept of “categorical and conceptual interpretations of criminal legal protection of foreign economic activity” is presented.