CRIMINOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ILLEGAL TRANSPORTATION OF PERSONS ACROSS THE STATE BORDER OF UKRAINE (ARTICLE 332 OF THE CRIMINAL CODE OF UKRAINE)
Abstract
The article examines an examination of the statistical data concerning criminal offences
under Art. 332 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, as provided by the General Prosecutor›s Office
of Ukraine, by conducting a comprehensive analysis of 261 court decisions of first instance for
the period spanning from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, encompassing the category
of cases designated as “Illegal transportation of persons across the State Border of Ukraine”,
drawn from the official database entitled “Unified State Register of Court Decisions”. It
establishes the criminological characteristics with regard to a criminal committing illegal
transportation of persons across the state border. In this study, the author analyses the sociodemographic
characteristics of the offender, including age, gender, occupation, level of
education, marital status, nationality and citizenship, recidivism and relapse, evidence of
complicity, committing a crime under the influence of alcohol/drugs, and his/her moral and
psychological characteristics, such as needs, interests, and motives.
Keywords: illegal state border crossing, criminology, criminological characteristics
of the offender, criminological portrait of the offender, Article 332 of the Criminal Code of
Ukraine, russian-ukrainian war, evasion of mobilization, martial law.
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