Reasons for the criminalization of the gambling business in Ukraine

Abstract

The criminalization of the gambling business in Ukraine is a complex process that is influenced by several factors. With the development of socio-economic and politico-legal relations, their number is increasing, which makes it necessary to update the mechanisms for limiting activities related to gambling. The purpose of the study was to identify the reasons and factors that led to the need to establish a legal ban on the implementation of the gambling business in Ukraine. The work uses methods of analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, deduction, abstraction, formal and legal. The specifics of social relations that existed in Ukraine at the time of the introduction of the ban on the gambling business were studied. The features of the social and political situation under which the criminalization of activities related to gambling was carried out were determined. The political tasks that the legislator set before himself in the process of imposing a ban on the gambling business were revealed. It was established that socio-economic and socio-psychological foundations were laid as the basis of this process. The impact of the tragedy that occurred in one of the gambling establishments in Dnipro on the views of political figures and state bodies regarding the gambling business, in general, has been revealed. The specifics of gamblers, their attitude to this type of activity and changes in moral values were studied. The influence of the gambling business on various spheres of the future development of the state, namely economic, political, and social, is considered. The results obtained in the study should be used in the process of developing new regulatory and legal acts, as well as for updating the mechanisms for combating the illegal gambling business in Ukraine