The Stability of Organized Criminal Groups as an Interdisciplinary Category
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Abstract. The article identifies the problem of analysing the stability of organized crime groups as an interdisciplinary category. The main provisions of program documents on strategic directions for combating organized crime are outlined in the thesis. The legal and institutional results of the implementation of the specified program documents at the current stage are highlighted. It is emphasized that the content of the relevant program documents emphasizes the importance and relevance of the actual scientific support for the applied implementation of their functions by law enforcement agencies in this area of work. Attention is drawn to the stability of organized crime groups as a category that requires analysis through the prism of the application of an interdisciplinary approach. The theoretical and methodological basis for studying the issues raised is outlined. The main provisions on the application of an interdisciplinary approach in scientific research are analysed, and its main features are also determined within the methodology of modern science. It is emphasized that stability as a relevant category characterizing organized criminal groups was understood mainly through the prism of criminal law, and the existing definitions of stability recorded in documents that have a prejudicial significance for subjects of criminal prosecution do not meet the needs of the sciences of the criminal law cycle, since they cannot be applied to individual forms of organized criminal groups in modern conditions. In the context of the analysis of the problem, a definition of the financial stability of organized criminal groups was formulated and the conditions that characterize them as stable entities from a financial point of view were determined. The directions of using the results of financial stability during criminal prosecution were outlined. In addition, the author's definition of the psychological stability of such groups during criminal prosecution was formulated. Criminal groups for which this indicator is quite high were identified. The main directions of using data on psychological stability at the strategic and tactical levels of criminal prosecution were outlined.
Keywords: organized crime; organized criminal groups; resilience; financial resilience; psychological resilience; covert measures; criminal prosecution; pre-trial investigation; strategic and tactical planning of criminal prosecution.
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