FEATURES OF PREVENTING SELFISH AND VIOLENT CRIMES COMMITTED BY FOREIGNERS AS PART OF ORGANIZED GROUPS IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article comprehensively examines the activities of authorized state and law enforcement agencies (officials) to minimize selfish and violent crimes committed by foreigners as part of organized criminal groups in Ukraine, which is aimed at identifying, eliminating or neutralizing relevant threats and dangers, preventing illegal actions and their harmful consequences, which is carried out with the help of criminological means. A conceptual vision of legislative improvement measures and departmental (interdepartmental) legal regulation of measures to prevent such criminal offenses is provided, which includes a wide range of criminological tools: general social, special criminological and individual preventive measures. It is argued that the general societal prevention of self-interested and violent crimes committed by foreigners as part of organized criminal groups in Ukraine should be a complex continuous process that takes into account changes occurring in modern society and affecting migration processes, as well as the social status of arriving persons, their readiness for inclusion in the social and economic life of the state and obedient behavior. The proposed multi-functional approach to areas of special criminological influence on members of organized groups and criminal organizations by operational units based on cooperation with law enforcement institutions of other states by exchanging information about criminal groups and persons participating in their activities, organizing and conducting joint targeted activities and cross-border operations to prevent organized criminal activity. Emphasis is placed on the effectiveness of operative and investigative activities. It is proposed to carry out measures of individual preventive influence on foreigners and stateless persons in the specified sequence: early prevention; direct prevention; prevention of relapse; post-criminal prevention.