Matskevich I.M. Preface

Abstract: In the preface the author outlines the top priority of criminology – crime prevention. The author assesses the crime prevention system in various historical periods of the Russian state development. The text emphasizes the significant importance of measures of social prevention for crime prevention, their hierarchical peculiarity in the Russian practice. The author analyzes the statutory instruments reflecting crime prevention; reveals the barriers hampering the introduction and application of particular measures of crime prevention, and the advantages of the existing measures with a positive experience of application. The author applies the system, historical, comparative, analytical methods, the method of cause and effect relation and the prognostic method. The author understands the priority objective of criminology which is crime prevention. At the same time it is its most difficult task. The author’s conclusions are based on the historical analysis of the ways of crime prevention in the Russian state and on comparing this experience with the modern legislative approach to the problem of criminality. 

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