Combating political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups

Mikhail Larkin,Ivan Kubariev,Viktor Boiarov,Yuliia Loboda,Volodymyr Buha

doi:10.34069/ai/2021.41.05.10

Abstract

In modern conditions of the development of public relations and political life, criminal activity in Ukraine is changing and transforming. In such transformational conditions, the commission of political crimes by members of informal youth groups is becoming more widespread. Given the above, the need to analyze political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups, methods, and means of combating such crimes, including foreign positive experience, becomes especially relevant. The work aims to analyze the means and methods of combating political crimes committed by members of such groups. The object of the research is the fight against political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups. The subject of the study is the social relations that arise, change, and end during the fight against political crimes committed by members of these groups. The research methodology is a set of different scientific methods, including observation, analysis, synthesis, extrapolation, generalization, comparison, dialectical method. The empirical basis of the study was the materials of the investigation of crimes committed by members of informal youth groups. As a result of the study, some issues of combating political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups were considered. Three main reasons for the participation of informal youth groups in political confrontations are highlighted, and certain issues of investigation of this type of criminal activity are considered.

Highlights

Considering political crime, according to the legal approach, as a set of homogeneous political crimes, recognized as such by the legislator, committed in a certain territory over a certain period of time (Kabanov, 2008), it should be recognized as one of the most complex and resonant categories of criminal proceedings.The term "political crime" is used to refer to torts related to power struggles, socio-political, religious, ethnic, national, separatist, foreign policy, and other reasons.political crime can be presented in the form of a socially dangerous form of struggle of the ruling or opposition political elites for power or its unlawful retention (Kudryavtsev, & Eminov, 2005)
As a result of the study, some issues of combating political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups were considered
Materials of criminal proceedings for the investigation of political crimes committed by members of informal youth groups, makes it possible to assume the presence of three main reasons for their illegal activity: 1) the goals, objectives, ideology of the informal group is aimed at opposing itself to the existing world order, state structure, political regime, that is, at the political struggle against the current order

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Introduction

Political crime can be presented in the form of a socially dangerous form of struggle of the ruling or opposition political elites for power or its unlawful retention (Kudryavtsev, & Eminov, 2005). A. Schopenhauer wrote: “To attach excessive importance to the opinion of others – this mania possesses everyone, whether it is rooted in our very nature or arose as a result of social life and civilization” (Schopenhauer, 2012). Schopenhauer wrote: “To attach excessive importance to the opinion of others – this mania possesses everyone, whether it is rooted in our very nature or arose as a result of social life and civilization” (Schopenhauer, 2012) It is the opinion, ideology, ideas of the majority, or a particular stratum of society that are opposed by various kinds of informal youth groups. One of the types of such confrontation is the commission of crimes of a political nature

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