Mirko B. Provocation of bribery: criminal law and criminological principles of counteraction

Section 1 of the study considers the social essence of bribery provocation as an act, analyzes its social danger, as well as describes the historical aspects of the emergence and development of this phenomenon in the domestic legal space, the ground of criminal liability for bribery provocation in criminal codes of foreign countries. Based on the analysis of the scientific literature, it is concluded that prerevolutionary scholars defined the activities of provocateurs as incitement to commit a crime, and the norms of codified acts did not actually mention the provocation of a crime. The corresponding phenomenon received independent regulation only in the Soviet period. At the same time, the legislator in a separate article provided for criminal liability solely for provoking a bribe. International conventions (Criminal Conve