The sphere of housing and communal services as an object of criminological study

This article is devoted to the urgent problem of crime in the field of housing and communal services. The article describes in detail the characteristic of housing and communal services from the point of view of economic and legal analysis, and also analyzes the specific features of the criminological and victimological approaches in studying the modern sphere of housing and communal services. The article identifies and analyzes the inalienable elements of the modern sphere of housing and communal services, which include the following independent sectors: among which the housing and utilities complex, consisting of the housing stock, which is a combination of all residential premises regardless of the form of ownership, including residential buildings, stands out specialized houses (dormitories, houses of maneuvering fund, orphanages, shelters, boarding schools), apartments, office premises and other premises in other Swarming, suitable for living. It is these objects that are the subject of study in this article. The author analyzes the factors that significantly hamper the development of this sector of the economy in the modern period, the main of which is its criminalization, which allows it to be attributed to the group of highly risky (in terms of criminal threats) industries. The analysis allows us to conclude that one of the unfavorable trends in the implementation of activities to combat crimes in the field of housing and communal services is a possible increase in the number of the following types of crimes: crimes against property (fraud, embezzlement or misappropriation, etc.); crimes in the field of economic activity (tax evasion, illegal banking, malicious evasion of paying payables, etc.); crimes against public service or service in local governments (abuse and abuse of power, misuse of budget funds, etc.).

жилищно-коммунальное хозяйство, криминологический подход, виктимологический подход, стратегия, жилищная сфера, характеристика, уголовная политика