Economic Criminality Research Articles

Do not Punish, Show Mercy: Clemency for the Condemned in Soviet Lithuania in 1954–1990

The article is concerned with the process of granting mercy to prisoners on death row in Soviet Lithuania. The Group for Granting Mercy consisting of members of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the LSSR and other Soviet institutions (the Supreme Court of the LSSR, Public Prosecutor’s Department etc.) had the right to grant (or not to grant) mercy to convicts. From 1954 the group deliberated on a permanent basis requests for mercy of condemned criminals; from 1957 it deliberated clemency requests of political prisoners sentenced to death. Every individual facing the death penalty had the right to request for clemency. Besides, such requests were often submitted by his/her family, lawyers or other persons interested in the case. The strategy of clemency requests is different for different categories of the condemned: criminals sentenced to death were inclined to appeal to feelings, wrote about their young age, no criminal past, and being under the influence; economic criminals employed legal motifs and collaboration with the investigators; condemned to death political prisoners used a certain period of time (most often the time when they were in hiding) when their attitude to the Soviet regime was not hostile and it could serve as an evidence that they could be pardoned, could improve their behaviour and become “Soviet people”. Mostly clemency requests of condemned to death criminals (31.2 % of women) were granted; requests of economic (15.4 %) or political (7.1%) prisoners with capital sentences were fewer. Over the period under discussion, the Group for Granting Mercy of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the LSSR deliberated a total of 301 requests for mercy submitted by the condemned to death, out of whom 77 individuals were pardoned. Seven more persons were absolved by the Presidium of the supreme Council of the USSR, which had more powers. Consequently, a total of 84 persons sentenced to death had their sentence commuted in the LSSS (27.9 % of all persons under death sentence).

The dishonest disposition and everyday economic criminality of the British public

This paper is concerned with the everyday economic crimes of ordinary people. Although dishonesty is a core characteristic of these offences, we are not aware of any prior research that examines the direct, relationship between dishonest attitude and economic crime. Based on a survey of the British public, this article presents insights into this relationship. By profiling the integrity, dishonest disposition and everyday economic criminality of the British public, the study finds a strong relationship between attitudes and harmful dishonest behaviour such that, in a given year, 26 % of adults in the UK commit at least one economic crime. The higher levels of dishonesty in males and younger adults helps to explain their more prolific offending. Both the honesty and age-economic crime curves indicate that the maturation decline in offending is gradual compared to the sharp desistance in early adulthood of the traditional age-crime curve. Whilst this finding also contradicts the conventional view that economic crime is a middle-aged problem, it helps to explain this perception. By comparing the attitude results to a 2011 study, the research further found that the maturation effect is more pronounced due to a decline in integrity of the under 55 y population so that the younger generations now have a steeper moral hill to climb.

Economic Crime and Some of its Features in Kosovo

The examination of economic crime in Kosovo is of particular importance because such a form of criminality is on the rise, as a result of the ever-increasing circulation of goods and services at the national and international level. Economic crime is increasingly appearing in various forms, either through the occurrence of numerous abuses in the market of goods and services, "money laundering", corruption, fraud and falsification of documentation on the origin of goods, abusive monopolies created in the market, crimes with electronic money and the involvement of financial institutions with special emphasis on banks and micro-financial institutions in these types of abuses, etc. Kosovo is a state attacked with various forms of economic criminality, where the degree of the "dark number" is quite pronounced as a result of the informal economy that exists in this country. Therefore, the strengthening of institutional mechanisms in the field of prevention and combating this type of criminality is more necessary since the measures taken so far are insufficient to reduce this type of economic criminality. A special role to gain the trust of the public opinion in preventing and fighting this type of criminality is also played by the mass media and non-governmental organizations, which should be created a greater scope of action in order to prevent economic abuses.

Iran's Criminal Policy on Economic Crimes

This article examines Iran's criminal policy regarding economic crimes. The present research was conducted using a descriptive and analytical method. The expansion of economic crimes has hindered the government’s achievement of national objectives in the domain of economic security. Iran’s economic environment, due to numerous vulnerabilities, creates a more conducive ground for committing economic crimes compared to advanced economic systems. However, Iran’s criminal policy, especially its penal policy, lacks specific measures to address this category of crimes. Due to the absence of a structured penal policy, the generalization of economic crime instances, insufficient coverage of economic crimes, and the lack of specific criteria to distinguish these crimes from other offenses, this concept benefits actual economic criminals more than it does the legal system and society’s citizens. Findings indicate that Iran's criminal policy regarding economic crimes faces numerous challenges. Among the most fundamental challenges and ambiguities are the lack of a comprehensive and precise definition of the concept and purpose of economic crimes, the breadth of cases due to leniency in judicial approaches, the flawed adoption of penal policies and the degree of their appropriateness and effectiveness, the absence of a clear definition of economic crimes, multiple legislative bodies in the field of economic crimes, pluralism in judicial criminal policy, populist penal approaches in dealing with economic crimes, the absence of a cohesive and unified criminal policy, and the security-oriented nature of criminal policy in economic crimes. These are among the current challenges and issues in Iran's criminal policy regarding economic crimes.

Etiologija i fenomenologija ekonomskog kriminaliteta u tranzicionim društvima

There is no generally accepted definition of economic criminality. The reason for this may be the frequent change of its content, i.e., of the criminal acts it includes. Together with the development of socioeconomic relations, new forms of the mentioned type of criminality also develop, so perhaps the definition neither should nor could be universal. Transitional societies have faced significant changes both in the field of political organization and in the field of economy. The most noticeable consequences of transition and switching to market economy were high unemployment and social stratification of the population. This had a negative impact on social values and morality, and therefore led to an increase in criminality. The aim of this research is to indicate the causes and forms of economic criminality in transitional societies. We start from the assumption that timely preparation for significant social changes, in terms of establishing adequate legal regulations and the existence of independent control mechanisms of certain economic processes, is of great importance for the prevention of economic crimes. By applying the content analysis, we try to show that even the countries in which the process of political and economic transition has long since ended can also face problems that potentially contribute to a large number of perpetrators of crimes that fall within the domain of economic criminality remaining unpunished, which directly threatens the principle of the rule of law.

Macro Approach in Economic Crime Response Technology in the Age of Global Transformation

The economic interest that dominates the pattern of modern human life causes the most prominent global transformation in terms of economic activity. Related to this, a macro approach is needed in overcoming technology-based economic crimes. The urgency of this research is expected to provide input for the development of legal science, specifically in Judicial Law and Economic Criminal Law related to cybercrime and make improvements in the provisions of laws and regulations relating to telematics crimes, especially in terms of electronic transactions. This study uses normative legal research. This study uses secondary data and primary data as supporting data. The results of this study show that overcoming technological economic crimes requires a multi-aspect concept because the nature of technological economic crimes is very complex. Its complexity continues to grow following the flow of global transformation in the economy. Therefore, the concept of handling it must be done with a multi-aspect concept.
 Keywords: economic, crimes, technology, global

Bringing Together the Criminologies of Atrocity and Serious Economic Crimes

Abstract The paper reflects on the value of linking criminological research on atrocity with that on serious economic crime. The two areas of criminological research are outlined briefly, before common challenges around complexity and interdependence are set out. An example of a criminal career encompassing both atrocity and serious economic criminality is put forward to support claims that atrocity and economic crime can usefully be studied together. Three further examples of research are discussed to show the possible merits of bringing together two criminological strands. Ultimately, studying the two forms of criminality together would respect the lived experience of victims, who see firsthand how atrocity and serious economic crime go hand in hand.

Increased Economic Crime in the Housing and Utilities Sector: Reasons and Ways to Overcome Them

Introduction. The housing and utilities sector is an integral part of the national economy affecting absolutely all citizens of Russia. In recent years, the number of economic crimes committed in this sector has increased. Bringing down the level of crime, developing the crime preventive measures in this sector constitute the scientific interest and relevance of the study. The purpose of the study is to analyse the reasons of increased economic crime in the sector of housing and utilities (hereinafter — housing and utilities), as well as to develop theoretical and practical recommendations aimed at decreasing the level of crime in this sector.Materials and Methods. To achieve the set forth goal, the general scientific dialectical method of cognition was used, the methods of analysis and synthesis used for generalising theoretical and practical material, the empirical and statistical methods made it possible to draw the main conclusion of the study and achieve the goal.Results. A comprehensive and multifaceted approach to solving the problem of increased economic crime in the housing and utilities sector has been implemented from perspective of criminal law, criminal-procedural and criminological scientific knowledge. The scientific value of this study is gained due to the comprehensive review of the reasons in the context of the overall picture of economic criminality in housing and utilities sector which allows making the most complete conclusions and defining general and specific criminological measures for preventing crime in the housing and utilities sector, namely, general social, economic, organisational and legal and educational measures; the specific ones carried out by the state housing supervision authorities and the internal affairs authorities.Discussion and Conclusions. The analysis of the judicial and investigative materials made it possible to identify the reasons of increased economic crime in the housing and utilities sector, as well as to develop efficient preventive measures to combat such crime. The article provides recommendations for practicing specialists (investigators of the economic crimes in the housing and utilities sector; judges hearing and passing sentences in this category of cases; employees of administrative offices calculating and setting the rates and resource-supplying companies charging the utility payments), as well as for researchers in the field of criminal law sciences.

THE WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IS “A LOST CAUSE” WITHOUT ROBUST MEASURES TO REPATRIATE STOLEN ASSETS TO COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN

The paper discusses the impediments inherent in using anti-corruption laws to repatriate stolen assets to the victim state. It examines both state laws and the international legal frameworks aimed at overcoming these obstacles. The assets in question are accrued by public officials from the proceeds of corruption, money laundering, tax avoidance and other forms of illicit financial transactions in countries where they have been hidden. While less developed countries are often the countries of origin, destination countries of stolen assets tend to be developed Western countries. There is ample evidence showing that the recovery and repatriation of stolen assets to countries of origin is more easily said than done, given the barriers they face. Victim states not only suffer a loss of revenue as a result of economic criminality, but they also incur huge expenses in attempting to recover criminal assets, without any guarantee that they will succeed in doing so. In essence, this article looks into the generic issues related to asset recovery. It examines the approaches adopted by both common law and civil law jurisdictions in Africa with respect to the repatriation of stolen assets, and explores the practicality of harmonising anti-corruption laws across the African continent, as has been done amongst member states of the European Union.

Regional economies: Reality, and national TV reporting

The problem of the spatial patterns of information transmitted by media is insufficiently debated within the literature so far. In relation to territorial marketing, in most countries the role of TV coverage is a pivotal one as it has the most intense impact on the wider public. Moreover, the TV news-reporting agenda to a large degree also epitomises the press and radio coverage agenda. This paper aims at assessing whether the selected attributes of real economic life in NUTS III regions in Czechia find their adequate portrayal in the regionally related contributions of an economic character that appear in national TV news reporting. Our attention was devoted primarily to the territorial perspective; more specifically, to the 14 self-governing regions in Czechia. In order to reduce the urban character of Prague, two NUTS III regions with the same centre, Prague and Central Bohemia, were aggregated into one territory. This is compliant with their natural geographical characteristics. Thus, the final number of analysed territories reached thirteen. Naturally, the share of news about the given topics in individual regions should roughly correspond to the presence of the themes in terms of territorial statistics. We will attempt to examine the intensity of the above-mentioned congruence. In this article, we shall concentrate on selected economic pillars. These pillars include economic life, economic policy, economic criminality, as well as research, development, and education. These pillars facilitate the evaluation of centralities and peripheralities in Czechia with regard to both material (i.e., real) and intangible (i.e., TV coverage-based) components. The process of gatekeeping plays a critical role in the selection of information that is transformed into media. Moreover, one cannot ignore the media bias – i.e., the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers – within the mass media in the selection of events and stories that are reported and the way they are covered. The research question posed in the frame of this article is as follows: can the significant differences between the virtual portrayals and genuine economic characteristics be found in all investigated territories in Czechia? Quantitative content analysis has been utilised for the classification and structuration of individual contributions in TV news reporting. In sum, disproportions between the real and virtual economic characters of regions are identified. Deviations from potential balance could be found in all of four defined economic pillars. Even more, single events may be so intensive that they affect and even distort the whole media portrayal of concrete regions. Subsequently, the relationship between centralities and peripheralities may become more intense and at the same time flexible within the virtual dimension. In this way, the intangible dimensions of centralities and peripheralities can act as either supportive or mitigating powers in relation to their material counterparts.

Bibliometric analysis of the transformative synergies between blockchain and accounting in the uprooting of economic criminality

Bibliometric analysis of the transformative synergies between blockchain and accounting in the uprooting of economic criminality

Эффекты и риски цифрового качества жизни населения в регионах России

Widespread digital transformation significantly changed people’s quality of life. We hypothesise that the digital component of people’s quality of life had a positive but differential impact on economic growth in Russian regions during 2015–2019. Moreover, economic and institutional risks occurring at the current stage of digital transformation could negatively affect economic development. The research pays special attention to the institutional factor, namely, project management quality and its influence on real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Russian regions. Methods of economic research were used such as index, rating, expert evaluation methods as well as regression and panel data models (including those with dummy variables). Transformation assessment was based on an integral index proposed by the authors called the Russian regional index of digital component of people’s quality of life (RRIDCPQL). The value of this digital index was increasing during 2015– 2019. The hypotheses of statistically significant influence of the digital quality of life, regional and temporal unobserved factors on real GDP per capita in 2015–2019 were confirmed. However, the study rejected the hypotheses of the positive impact of digitalisation on the unemployment rate and on the decrease in the share of government employees. Positive influence of digitalisation on the divorce rate was revealed while its negative influence on economic criminality and real income per capita of the population was partially confirmed. The importance of project management quality of the program “Digital economy of the Russian Federation” for regional development was demonstrated. The research results presenting new data on the growth of digital economy can be used to adjust the implementation of digital projects in Russian regions.

Intelligent Application of Artificial Intelligence Internet of Things Technology in the Economic and Legal Fields

In today’s globalized situation, people on the one hand enjoy the great convenience brought by the Internet and artificial intelligence Internet of Things (IoT) technology, and, on the other hand, they are also inevitably subject to a series of harms brought by network technology. Internet economic crime is a new type of crime based on Internet technology. Criminals use Internet technology to conduct illegal visits and Trojan horse program attacks, steal user information, and defraud victims of money. This has resulted in the people’s personal and property safety and social harmony and stability. Strictly cracking down on cyber economic crimes in accordance with the law is of great significance to safeguarding the interests of the people and maintaining social stability. However, as the methods and forms of cyber economic crimes emerge endlessly, it is very important to collect intelligence information on such crimes. This paper proposes using the sensor technology, embedded system technology, radio frequency automatic identification technology, and cloud computing technology in artificial intelligence Internet of Things technology to design and build a data-mining-based network economic crime intelligent information aggregation collection system to realize network economic crime intelligence of aggregation and analyze and help combat cyber economic crimes. This article takes cyber economic crime cases in various cities in our province as an example, selects 9 cyber economic criminals’ intelligence information as sample data, and tests and applies the designed cyber economic crime intelligence information system. The final results show that the numbers of cyber economic crime cases in four cities A, B, C, and D in four provinces are roughly the same, but city A has the largest number; the minimum confidence of the 9 criminals is above 0.60, indicating that the economic crimes of cyber economic criminals are related to their academic background and family status and criminal history are related to a certain extent; illegal fund-raising fraud and online credit card fraud account for the largest proportion of the four cities and are currently the main forms of online economic crime.

Punishment of Persons Convicted of Economic (Business) Crimes and Malfeasance in Office, in the Assessment of the Public and Professionals

Introduction: the article considers ultra-liberal, ultra-radical and realistic views on the punishment of persons convicted of economic (business) crimes and malfeasance in office. The article analyzes public and professional opinion on this problem using the results of specific sociological studies conducted in 2018–2019 by Tkachevsky Research and Education Center “Problems of Penal Law” under Lomonosov Moscow State University. Research materials and methods: the research is based on the application of the specific sociological research method. The materials for our research include the results of the study of public and professional opinion on the punishment of those convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office, and on the places and conditions of their imprisonment. Empirical research includes surveys of three types of respondents: citizens of the Russian Federation; persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office who are serving sentences in correctional institutions; correctional officers. We also investigate proposals on sending the convicts under consideration to correctional institutions located in remote regions of Russia, and the prospects for the construction and opening of so-called private prisons for them. We analyze the practice of keeping persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office together with other categories of convicts. Results: we conclude that the public and professionals do not tend to hold extreme positions (ultra-liberal or ultra-radical) in the punishment of persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office. The public and professionals assess quite realistically the criminal policy of the state and judicial practice at the present stage of the state's development and allow, within certain limits, the application of punishment in the form of imprisonment to economic and official criminals. We emphasize that both categories of respondents (citizens and convicts) are more inclined to use imprisonment in relation to persons who have committed malfeasance in office than to those who committed economic crimes. We argue that public opinion is dissatisfied with the fact that persons convicted of malfeasance in office and economic crimes are kept together with other categories of convicts. There is no such dissatisfaction in the professional opinion: the majority of interviewed correctional officers do not support the idea of sending those convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office to separate correctional institutions. We put forward a proposal concerning the implementation of the idea that persons convicted of economic crimes and malfeasance in office should be held in separate correctional institutions in the course of modernization provided for by the Concept for development of the penal system of the Russian Federation until 2030, which consists in opening joint correctional institutions.

When Is an Increase in Criminal Legislation Necessary? Emphasis on Economic Criminality Discussions

The objective of this article is to answer the question of when an increase in criminal legislation is necessary. To this end, a review was conducted on the positions that deal directly or peripherally with increases in criminal legislation, with a focus on how these positions relate to increases, such as the more general positions related to “law and social change”, as well as the more specific positions related to penal inflation and “penal populism”. Special reference will be made to the expansion thesis, which, in general, has been well received in Ibero-America. In the second section of this study, the answer to the question is addressed, considering elements from the “law and social change” approach and Sutherland’s reflections on white-collar criminality.

THE CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY BY CORPORATE

Corporation is the subject of a criminal act. In Indonesia, the statutory regulations that initiated the placement of corporations as subjects of criminal acts and which can be directly accounted for are Act No. 7 the Emergency of 1955 concerning Investigation, Prosecution and Economic Criminal Justice, as subjects of criminal law corporations do not have an inner attitude. Meanwhile, to be criminally accountable, a men's rea/schuld is required. Crimes committed by corporations are very detrimental to society and the state. Meanwhile, the conventional accountability system which is individual, direct, and based on schuld, is difficult to apply to corporations. The purpose of writing is to analyze the corporate liability system to impose crimes against corporations, and obstacles to imposing crimes against corporations. The method used is the statute approach (legal approach) and the case approach (case approach), the analysis method uses qualitative analysis with interpretation, and the data collection method uses library research. It can be concluded that corporations can be held accountable by using a system of absolute and substitute liability, and the obstacle is the application of a conventional criminal liability system and the difficulty of proving corporate wrongdoing. It is suggested that there is a common perception between law enforcers about the criminality of corporations.

THE CAUSES AND CONDITIONS OF CRIME IN THE FIELD OF ECONOMY

The article examines the issue of combating criminal offenses in the field of economics. It is emphasized that economic crime is caused by destructive tendencies in the development of market relations in the economy and social sphere. Lack of real protection of legitimate economic relations, lag of law-making activity from the needs of economic practice, unsystematic adoption of legal acts concerning certain elements of the economic system. Recently, there has been a process of merging economic and criminal offenses, as well as merging with organized crime. Penetrating into various spheres of the economy, criminal associations seek not only to establish control over the activities of specific enterprises but also to create their own structures capable of occupying a leading position in the infrastructure of individual industries. The intellectual level of criminal activity increases, the scope, and methods of encroachment expand. The reasons for committing mercenary crimes in the economic sphere are both objective and subjective. Thus, in the determination of crime involved both biological and social characteristics of man. An economic criminal does not perceive himself as a criminal, although he admits that he is breaking the law. The problem here is that the media is very one-sided coverage of the image of the traditional criminal, as well as the fact that economically criminal behavior is difficult at first glance to distinguish from socially obedient. Economic criminals justify their crimes by committing them with the tacit consent or approval of public opinion. They deny causing harm to citizens, and also claim that almost all businessmen do the same. If the profit significantly exceeds the possible punishment, then such a crime becomes profitable. Criminal behavior should not be economically or socially profitable. At the same time, it is important to improve the economic and social living conditions of the people.

Криминальные угрозы электронной коммерции: международные и национальные аспекты

Economic criminality, being driven by the digitalization of economic relations, switches to the area of electronic commerce and uses all the advantages emerging with the development of information and telecommunication technologies, which requires modern regulation of such relations by the state and international community. The authors consider electronic commerce as various economic relations that use electronic, telecommunication, information resources and technologies. Electronic commerce can potentially offer many advantages as compared with a more traditional trade, although its use also has some negative consequences and faces real threats of cybercrime mentioned in this article; electronic trade may be subject to money laundering. The authors identify the following: categories of cybercrime in the area of electronic commerce; types of cybercrimes using computers; types of cybercriminals; lines (levels) and key tasks of combating crimes in the area of electronic commerce.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЮ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ НЕФТЕГАЗОВОГО КОМПЛЕКСА В УСЛОВИЯХ ЦИФРОВОЙ ЭКОНОМИКИ

The financial and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic provokes not only unconventional situations in society, but also actively affects the state of economic crime. The criminal situation in the oil and gas complex is directly related to the current state of the economy and digitalization of its processes, a set of conditions and factors responsible for its stability, sustainability and progressiveness of the digital economy. It is not enough to assess the economic criminality of the oil and gas complex only by the number of revealed crimes; therefore, it is necessary to implement an effective economic concept of society and economic security of a particular enterprise, legal entity and individual, which will allow to change the entire cause-and-factor complex causing economic criminality. The article reveals the specific features of the oil and gas complex that contribute to the commission of economic crimes. A classification of factors contributing to the commission of economic crimes is proposed, in which the socio-economic and specific factors of the oil and gas industry are consistently considered, and their characteristics with the growth of economic crimes are given. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the development of the model of preventive measures to ensure economic security at macro-, meso– and micro levels of market economy in the conditions of digitalization. The cause-and-factor complex of economic crimes is considered taking into account the following blocks: political and legal, socio-economic, sectoral, organizational and technological, which are interconnected and actively affect the level of economic crimes. As a result, the main measures to counteract economic crimes are proposed, taking into account the purposeful influence of society, specific enterprise, legal entity and individual on the causes and conditions of ensuring economic security of the state.

Counteraction to Criminality In the Ukrainian SSR In the Second Half of 1930S

For today there is a far of the publications sanctified to soviet history of 1930th. However basic attention in them is spared there are 1937-1939 to strengthening of the totalitarian mode and repressions. And the problems of combating crime have received little attention.Research aim. Taking into account insufficient worked out of theme, an author put an aim to itself to light up the role of militia in counteraction to some types of criminality in the second half 1930th. This range of problems is wide enough, that is why we specially did not investigate some of directions of activity of militia at this time, in particular fight against gangsterism, counteract to economic criminality and role of militia in repressions 1937-1938, as it is an object other our scientific researches.Research methodology. The fundamental methodological principle of the study for the author was historicism. We tried to study the processes, events and facts in chronological order, taking into account the then socio-political situation. The method of comparison allowed to consider the general and special in activity of militia of different regions of the republic and differences in counteraction to different types of crimes.The scientific novelty of the article is that for the first time in the historical literature it reveals the activities of the police in combating crime in the second half of the 1930s., related to improving the work of investigators, district inspectors.In the article basic directions of activity of militia are exposed in relation to counteraction to some types of crimes in Ukraine, in the second half of 1930th. In this time a "liberal" period made off relatively in history of soviet legislation.It was considered that in connection from completion of building of socialism in the USSR the main causations of crime, related to the inheritance of, are czarism on the whole removed, and the pore of the most rapid liquidation of criminality came, although at this time appeared and new types of crimes : 1. crimes related to the passport system (imitation, sale and purchase, theft of passports); 2. violation of charter of agricultural artel, violation of soviet and of a collective farm democracy; 3.sabotage of Stakhanovsky motion, pursuit ofStakhanov’ s men.New Constitution of the USSR was accepted in 1936, and in 1937 is new Constitution of Ukraine. For them wide rights for soviet citizens were proclaimed, but in reality they were not realized, becoming illustration to neglect of law and law and order.However would be an overstatement to consider that there was complete legal anarchy and raging of criminality in the state .Conclusions. In the second half 1930th a militia, without regard to mass repressions and certain vagueness of fate of many workers, continued counteraction to criminality. Certain attention was spared to the improvement of work of investigators, district inspectors, secret-service-informative work, bringing in of public to counteraction to criminality. In the total it was succeeded to attain some reduction of general level to criminality.