TOPICAL ISSUES OF DEVELOPING THE SYSTEM OF AGENCIES TO PREVENT ORGANIZED CRIME: CURRENT STATE AND IMPROVEMENT PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

Purpose: Analysis of the current issues related to the preventive and law enforcement activities in the fight against modern Russian organized crime in the absence of a specialized agency (liquidation in September 2008 of Agency for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism of Russian MIA) of such activities. Methods: The material is based on a study of problems emerged in connection with the qualitative change in the parameters of crime and its organized forms which requires reconsideration of the existing views on the struggle against it, the development of new appropriate forms and methods. The author justifies the reasons why the active opposition of organized crime remains one of the key policies of criminological and national security. Results and scope of application: Special attention is given to specialized agencies involved in the fight against organized crime. The article reveals the content and scope of their multi-aspect activities. It is concluded that it is necessary to concentrate attention on coordination and integration of efforts of the law enforcement bodies to ensure lawful and reasonable prevention of organized crime. Scientific novelty: The scientific novelty lies in researching the social and legal prerequisites of the systemic anticriminogenic effect of the preventing agencies on organized crime. Special attention is given to differences in existing approaches of legal scholars and practitioners to identification of the nature and to specifics of the activities of law enforcement bodies directly involved in prevention of the phenomenon of modern organized crime, forming the system of organizational and other measures to counter it. Possible ways of improvement and development prospects of the system of organized crime prevention in the internal affairs bodies are identified.