On criminal law characteristics of misappropriation of a car or other vehicle

The issues of criminal-law assessment of elements of the corpus delicti under Article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation were investigated. For a more objective assessment of the named crime related to property, from the point of view of the evolution of the criminal law, its place in the structure of the special part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was determined. The author analyzes the problems of qualification of the main and qualified corpus delicti, its legal conflict and correlation with embezzlement, assesses the inconsistency of the recommendations of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The conclusion is made about the place of theft as a property crime in Ch. 21 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.