On the Problem of Ways of Avoiding and Fighting Against Latent Criminality

The given article deals with the problem of latent criminality as the phenomenon preventing from exact quality analysis of the criminal situation in the given region, as it hides away the crimes which really occurred but were not directed to the court by different reasons. Latent criminality is the kind of crime not fixed while statistically describing the criminal case, it is different by its specific peculiarities from other kinds of crimes, this fact should be especially taken into account while dealing with latent criminality within social, criminal, juridical aspects, as well taking into account the degree of danger of this crime for the socium, the proper time and place of crime, the reason of the crime, the damage coming of it, etc. The article also considers differences between latent and uninvestigated crimes, main reasons of latent criminality and some measures of fighting against it as well as its possible decreasing.