Differentiation of property confiscation as a criminal law means of social control

Introduction. Problems related to the insufficient effectiveness of the process of property confiscation, as well as the existence of unresolved contradictions in the legal regulation of the seizure of property obtained as a result of committing a crime, require the search for new approaches to determining the grounds and conditions for applying such a measure of a criminal law nature. Considering the process of property confiscation as a means of social control allowing to exclude the possibility of economic profit from committing crimes, makes it possible to fill existing gaps in current legislation and enforcement practice. Methods. The research is based on general scientific methods: synthesis, induction, and generalisation. Using a formal legal method, the norms of domestic criminal legislation regulating the grounds and conditions for applying property confiscation were analysed. Based on the interdisciplinary concept of resource control developed in the fields of corporate and public administration, economics, and management, the author illustrates the possibility of establishing more comprehensive grounds for property confiscation as an alternative measure of a criminal law nature. The method of legal modelling has made it possible to formulate specific proposals for improving the process of property confiscation. Results. In developing the concept of the unacceptability of economic profits from crime committing, the author proposes refusing selective confiscation of incomes from certain offences only and extending confiscation to property obtained as a result of any offence. In addition, the author states the need to exclude unreasonable differentiation in the confiscation of property depending on financial status that implies the profitability of committing crimes using vehicles not belonging to an offender.