INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AS A COMPONENT OF THE FIGHT AGAINST TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of the article is to analyze international cooperation as a component of the fight against transnational organized crime. Methodology. General scientific methods of formal logic (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction, analogy, abstraction, and modeling) were used in the analysis of international cooperation as a component of the fight against transnational organized crime. Results. It was determined that UN recommendations play a special role in coordination activities, the formation of the international legal framework for combating crime, the development of international standards in the field of combating transnational organized crime, and are aimed at improving national legislation and expanding the cooperation of security sector institutions with international partners. The content of the Congresses shows a tendency to a steady expansion of the topics and problems considered by the participating states, which is a natural reflection of the response of the world community to the gradual growth of criminogenicity in the world in the era of the development of globalization, and even the waging of war and the involvement of transnational criminal groups in them. Practical implications. Based on the study and generalization of the materials of the UN congresses on crime prevention and criminal justice, it is worth concluding that in the conditions of war and martial law, transnational organized crime in Ukraine has gone beyond the criminal and economic segment, has become a significant factor in the military and political situation, and has enormous economic resources, material and technical support, weapons and human resources, which do not take into account the borders of the state and independently decide the fate of individual regions of the country. In these conditions, the main directions of combating this phenomenon should be focused around problems related to national security and be consistent with the state strategy for its provision, including criminological means (establishment and elimination of causes and conditions, fight against transnational forms in the directions of prevention, and detection).

Keywords: transnational crime; organized crime; fight against crime; war; martial law; criminological policy; cooperation; interaction.