The article is devoted to the study of the concept of “criminal offense” and its types: “criminal misdemeanor” and “crime” as novelties of criminal law introduced into the Criminal Code of Ukraine (CC of Ukraine) by the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning Simplification of Pre-trial Investigation of Certain Categories of Criminal Offenses”. The essential obligatory features which make the sense of a generic concept “criminal offense” which is interpreted as “socially dangerous provided by the criminal law, guilty criminally punishable act (action or inaction) committed by a criminal offender” are found out. The content and system connections of the features of this concept are considered, their organic interrelation and unity is emphasized.

Types of criminal offenses are analysed – criminal misdemeanor and crime as objective forms of manifestation of a criminal offense in reality, features of legislative definition of criminal offenses in norms of the Special part of CC of Ukraine are considered, the correlation of the general (generic) concept of “criminal offense” with the concepts of “criminal misdemeanor” and “crime” as well as with the concepts of specific types of criminal offenses provided for in the Special Part of the CC of Ukraine is found out, emphasis is placed on the determining influence of the former on the latter.

The purpose of the article – development of the concept of “criminal offense”, the relationship of this concept with its types: criminal misdemeanors and crimes, establishing the role of this concept to define the concepts of specific offenses under the Special Part of the CC of Ukraine.

The main results of the study are to identify the content of the concept of “criminal offense”, the mandatory features of which are recognized: socially dangerous, criminally illegal, guilty, criminally punishable act (action or omission) committed by a criminal offender, its consolidating impact on the system of criminal law concepts and norms and the conclusion on this basis that this concept actually performs the functions of the starting and defining category of criminal law, in clarifying the correlation and relationship of features of this generic concept with its types: “criminal misdemeanor” and “crime”, as well as its role in determining the concepts of specific offenses provided for in the articles of the Special Part of the CC of Ukraine.

The conclusion formulates the generic concept of “criminal offense”, which must correspond in content (at the general level) to the specific concepts of “criminal misdemeanor” and “crime”, as well as the definition of specific offenses under the Special Part of the CC of Ukraine.

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