Organized Crime Today

Objective: to study organized crime, its features, determinants and preventive measures; Conclusions: - organized crime changes following the changes taking place in the state; its determinants can be divided into two groups: the first group - are determinants caused by the specifics of criminal activity, its direction, objects of criminal attacks, the second group is associated with the type of criminal group or community itself, its size, hierarchy, features of persons who are members of the group; as specific countermeasures we can propose: increasing the legal literacy of law enforcement officers and their motivation for new knowledge, developing practical recommendations for law enforcement officers, methods of investigating organized crimes, intensifying operational work to collect information about the leaders of criminal communities, organizing social adaptation and control (administrative supervision) over persons released from places of imprisonment for committing crimes as part of organized criminal groups and communities, isolating the leaders of organized criminal groups in correctional institutions and separate psychological work with them.