Self-interest: correlation of purpose and motive for committing a crime

Subject of research: interpretation by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of self-interest in the form of self-interested motive and self-interested purpose of committing a crime in rulings on specific categories of criminal cases. Purpose of research: to develop a unified approach in defining the concepts of «selfish motive» and «selfish purpose» for subsequent use in the judicial practice of the Russian Federation in terms of the qualification of crimes of a mercenary orientation. Methods and objects of research: when analyzing the interpretation by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of self-interested motive and self-interested purpose of a crime, the formal-logical method, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis were used. Main results of research: without self-interested motive, consisting in the inducement of the guilty to extract as a result of committing a crime a benefit of a property №ature or to get rid of certain material costs, there is №o self-interested purpose, consisting in the mentally represented by the guilty result in the form of conversion of property in its own favor, the favor of other persons, the extraction of other property benefits, getting rid of material costs.