Abstract
Introduction. Problems that arise in the process of solving crimes have always been the object of scientific attention of specialists in various fields of professional activity. They are also specialists in the fields of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminology, operational investigative activities and criminology. This is not by chance, since the ways to solve this problem are multi-volume, multi-faceted and include numerous areas of scientific knowledge and practical analysis of the most pressing issues of combating crime in Russia. Unsolved crime has a number of significant patterns that, in turn, determine its criminological and social nature, as well as determine the need for its further research. Purpose. Definition of approaches to the formulation of the concept of unsolved crime. Methodology. Various General scientific and special methods of cognition were used in this study. At the same time , the key ones were the dialectical method and the method of system analysis. Results. As a result of a consistent and systematic analysis of legal categories, we developed our own definition: unsolved crime is a socially dangerous phenomenon, expressed in the aggregate of officially registered criminal acts that remained unsolved due to the failure to identify the perpetrators during the Statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, accumulating a statistical array of unsolved crimes of previous years. Conclusion. The concept of unsolved crime has scientific and practical value, since the signs and properties of this type of crime define it as an independent type of crime that determines new approaches to the study of this criminological phenomenon, as well as to improve the fight against crime.
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