THE NOTION AND FEATURES OF THEFT OFFENCE ACCORDING TO THE CRIMINAL LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

The article deals with the notion of theft offence according to the criminal law of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The new Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan entered force on January 1, 2015. One of the most ancient ways of offence against somebody’s property is thievery, which is the simplest and the most wide spread way, known since the most ancient law sources and continues to be relevant nowadays. The theory of actions violating the property rights has a number of peculiarities and is rather difficult. Nowadays the difficulties of definition theft on the stage of introductory investigation are caused by the lack of practice according to the new Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which results in the lack of theft criminal case law.