Kuznetsov A.P. Criminological policy: concept and characteristics of the essence

Abstract: The radical transformations, taking place in Russia, alongside the positive results, have caused the toughening of a crime situation. Criminality as a negative social phenomenon dominates in the society, destroys governmental institutions, demoralizes social conscience, and undermines the authority of government structures. New criminogenic challenges require reconsideration of the main directions of crime prevention. The former conceptual crime prevention paradigms have been destroyed, the positive experience has been rejected, and the existing scientific results have been ignored. In this context there is a need for a new vision of problems, an optimal criminological model able to neutralize the negative consequences of social relations decriminalization. To achieve the research purposes the author applies general and special scientific methods: analysis, synthesis, the structural-logical method, statistical and other methods of scientific cognition. The condition of criminality is the set of crimes committed on the certain territory for the certain period of time; the level of criminality is the correlation of the number of crimes committed on the certain territory and the population size; the criminality dynamics is the quantitative changes for the period of time; the criminality structure is the share correlation of particular groups and types of crimes in total. 

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