System of Measures for Preventing and Combating Crimes Encroaching on the Territorial Integrity and Constitutional System, National Security

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to determine the ways of improving the nationwide system of preventing and combating crimes encroaching on territorial integrity and constitutional system, national security. Methodology. The methodological basis of the article is the dialectical approach to the analysis of legal phenomena in Ukraine. The author of the work has used the method of formal logic: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, abstraction, as well as statistical, system and structural, system and functional methods. The scientific novelty of the article is to consider the reasons for the ineffectiveness of the system of combating crimes against state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. The current model of political activity is incapable to produce grounded and effective concepts of ensuring national security, in particular, in stabilizing the political situation in the country, combating separatism, resolving inter-religious and ethnic conflicts. The author has emphasized on the necessity to change the principles of the formation of the system of state agencies for ensuring national security, as well as to change the principles of selecting personnel to the leading positions of the subjects of special prevention of crimes in the mentioned sphere. It has been noted that the state of national security of Ukraine, its sovereignty and territorial integrity should be determined by the realization of the idea of national unity, blocking of separatist tendencies in certain regions, development of integration processes in the country.On the basiс of the conducted analysis, the author has offered the following understanding of combating crimes encroaching on territorial integrity and constitutional system, national security of Ukraine. Conclusions. Combating to the mentioned crimes according to the temporal characteristic is a continuous process, within which both social and special criminological measures are carried out simultaneously and at the same time, and which are aimed at neutralizing criminogenically determinative factors and directly at preventing and solving crimes. They ultimately are aimed at correcting criminogenic and quantitatively-qualitatevely minimization of criminal situation (on a district, regional or country level) and reducing the total physical, moral and material damage caused by crimes encroaching on the territorial integrity and constitutional system, national security of Ukraine.

Keywords: counteraction; preventing; crime; territorial integrity; national security; state sovereignty.