Protection of the credit relations in Ukrainian criminal law

The article examines the features of the protection of credit relations by the criminal law of Ukraine. The scope of the article is to study peculiarities of credit and financial relations in Ukraine, to reveal types of crimes in the field of credit relations and specifics of their subjects, to analyze qualifying features of crimes in the field of credit activity. To achieve the purpose of the article, formal-logical and dogmatic-legal research methods were used. Using the formal-logical and dogmatic methods, credit relations as an object of legal protection in criminal law were analyzed. The characteristic features of the personality of criminals who commit crimes in the field of credit relations have been studied. Their specific differences from other types of criminals are revealed, which are manifested in the fact that people who commit crimes in the field of credit relations, as a rule, have a high social status, higher education and are financially secure. Thanks to the research conducted in the article some important features of crimes in the field of credit activity were revealed, such as the fact, that among those who commit crimes in the field of lending, there is a high proportion of women. This fact has an important meaning for the social sciences, since it underlines inequality and gender discrimination.