Antonyan Yu.M. Criminality prevention

Abstract: Criminality can’t be eradicated once and for all. Criminality prevention includes all the complex of efforts of the society and the state aimed at prevention and restraint of crimes, avoidance of crimes, correction of the guilty, and education of the youth in the spirit of respect for law and morality and the rules of the society. Crime prevention can be described as the following system: on the one hand, the state and the society as a huge system create the conditions for struggle against criminality, and on the other hand, law enforcement organizations, family, school, teachers and “common people” attempt to prevent criminal actions on the part of particular persons. In the sphere of struggle against criminality several terms are used, including “criminality prevention”, “struggle against criminality”, etc. The author notes that usually these terms are used as synonyms expressing one and the same idea. At the same time, some autonomous directions can be singled out in preventive activities. A significant number of people, committing murders, are recognized mentally incompetent, and therefore avoid criminal prosecution. But their social danger remains high, as far as they can commit another murder in a psychiatric hospital or after the treatment. The cases are known when the persons, released from psychiatric hospitals, committed two and even three murders. It means that they were released arbitrarily, the more so since there exist such psychiatric diseases, which can’t be cured. Therefore, the author suggests that those who have committed two or more murders should be kept in psychiatric hospitals for life. 

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