The article in question comes to clarify boundaries and similarities abuse of power or abuse of the impugned criminal contravention criminalized. These goals resulting from the importance of knowledge and applicability of uniform legislation to experts in the field, including civil servants and officials to exclude under mandate in office or , where appropriate, of such illegal actions. The study demonstrates that content is legal abuse of power or abuse of the service through the doctrinal concepts, including elucidate features elements of a crime and its components offenses in parallel , showing actually through it are boundaries and similarities legal reference to criminalization of abuse of power or abuse of the criminal law and the contravention. Meanwhile, in the final part, explained that sanctions are an abuse of power or abuse of criminal and criminalization if the legal effects it produces both forms of liability for the act once.