An Official of a Law Enforcement Agency in the Structure of Crime Prevention

Abstract

The problem of the effectiveness of crime prevention in the modern conditions is acquiring the features of a global one. The strategies of counteracting new forms of crime are formed and tested at international and national levels withing the framework of cooperation of different subjects. The technologies adapted for criminal purposes require an adequate reaction from the state in the form of improving criminal policy and reconsidering approaches to crime counteraction, including the use of international experience in combination with specific national features. Crime prevention is viewed as a process with its own content, which includes a multitude of subjects and objects. The variety of subjects and forms of their interaction gives rise to the necessity of researching their essence and legal status in order to build a system combining optimal ways of influencing these objects. Law enforcement bodies have the greatest potential, they act as specialized subjects carrying out tasks through authorized officials. Lying outside the scope of research is the unsolved problem of defining subjects responsible for preventing crimes against officials of law enforcement bodies, as shown by the official statistical data of the Russian Federation correlating with data from other countries. They are specialized subjects of crime prevention, and if a crime is committed against them, they lose the status of subjects and become objects in the newly emerged legal relations. This leads to the necessity of singling out a new category of subjects responsible for the prevention of crimes committed against the officials of law enforcement bodies. Their status should be researched on the basis of the current legislation, court practice, and national legal doctrine by singling out the rights, responsibilities, guarantees and liability of such subjects.