MODERN YOUTH MARGINAL GROUPS AS ONE OF THE THREATS TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE (CRIMINOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS)

Abstract

In this scientific article, based on the results of the analysis of criminological characteristics, the socio-legal nature of youth marginal groups is clarified and their social danger in the conditions of martial law for the national security of Ukraine is proven. In particular, it was established that today negative trends in their functioning have formed in our state, taking into account the influence of the aggressor country on the youth environment and the use of its potential and real opportunities in confrontation with national means and forces in matters of patriotic education and participation in the protection of the national interests of Ukraine. It was also found that, despite the steady trend of reducing the criminal activity of persons under 40 years of age in the last period (2019-2022), their illegal orientation (committing criminal offenses in a group of persons (art. 28 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine); with the use of weapons (Article 263 of this Code); with the occurrence of socially dangerous consequences (death and serious bodily injury (Articles 115, 121 of the Criminal Code) etc.)) and their quantitative and qualitative indicators testify to a real source of encroachments, which today can encroach on the national security of Ukraine. Taking into account the above, in this scientific article: the justified need to increase the level of prevention of crimes committed by youth groups at all levels of such social activity (general social, special criminological, individual and victimological). In addition, based on the results of the research, it was concluded that this type of crime encroaches not only on the protected rights, criminal interests and freedoms of individuals and legal entities, but is also socially dangerous for Ukraine as a whole in the conditions of other threats to the national security of our state.