Organized Crime in Ukraine: Status and Problems of Implementing State Policy in the Sphere of Countering this Phenomenon
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to identify and highlight the status, trends, current threats and problems of implementing state policy in the sphere of combating organized crime in Ukraine. In order to achieve this goal, the article accomplishes the following tasks: it characterizes the status, identifies trends, current threats and problems in implementing state policy in the sphere of combating organized crime in Ukraine. The focus is on the criminological situation associated with prevalence of the terrorist threat in Ukraine and banditry. It highlights the problems of one of the main tasks in our country, i.e. counteraction to corruption crimes. The state of counteraction to illegal migration and ethnic crime is analyzed. Emphasis is on a lack of progress in countering smuggling by law enforcement agencies over the last ten years. The conducted analysis of the situation with drug trafficking in Ukraine shows an increase in the number of online resources involved in drug trafficking and the transition of part of the offline drug market into the Internet plane. The main factors that allow for the conditions for smuggling have been identified. The problematic issues that take place in the practical activity of the structural units of the National Police of Ukraine, which counteract organized crime, are highlighted. In this context, the effectiveness of the work of the following bodies has been analyzed: of the National Police of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, the State Migration Service, and other bodies as well. The conclusions have been made as for the effectiveness of measures to combat organized crime by law enforcement agencies. The author of the article considers it appropriate to review the status of the Security Service of Ukraine as a law enforcement agency, by legally establishing it as a special service, in accordance with the requirements of the EU and NATO institutions. It is proposed to restore the functioning of the Scorpion Automated Search Engine on the basis of the State Bureau of Investigation. The methodological basis of the work leans upon the dialectical approach to the analysis of criminogenic situation in Ukraine and in the world. The following formal logic methods are used in the work: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, abstraction; statistical, system-structural, forecasting methods as well. The scientific novelty of the article is that for the first time in Ukraine it investigated organized crime in Ukraine as of 2018–2019; it identified tendencies and main problems of implementation of state policy in the sphere of combating this phenomenon; as well as the specific propositions for reformation of the bodies of criminal justice and legislation were introduced therein. The conclusions emphasized the need to create a central coordinating body to manage the macro-system of combating organized crime as an organizational and functional system.
Keywords: corruption; organized crime; organized group; criminal organizations; counteraction; public policy.
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