Illegal Behavior Research Articles

КРИМИНОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ГЕРОНТОПСИХИАТРИЯ

The article is devoted to the crime of elderly people (over 50 years old). The general criminological and psychiatric characteristics of this age category of criminals are given, the most common mental disorders among them. The criminogenic significance of the latter, including for women, the ratio of psychotic and non-psychotic disorders are shown. The role of the microenvironment environment, primarily the family, on the illegal behavior of subjects with mental disorders is emphasized. An at-tempt has been made to scientifically analyze the causes of the criminal behavior of these persons.

An interpretable prediction model of illegal running into the opposite lane on curve sections of two-lane rural roads from drivers’ visual perceptions

Illegal running into the opposite lane (IROL) on curve sections of two-lane rural roads is a frequently hazardous behavior and highly prone to fatal crashes. Although driving behaviors are always determined by the information from drivers’ visual perceptions, current studies do not consider visual perceptions in predicting the occurrence of IROL. In addition, most machine learning methods belong to black-box algorithms and lack the interpretation of prediction results. Therefore, this study aims to propose an interpretable prediction model of IROL on curve sections of two-lane rural roads from drivers’ visual perceptions. A new visual road environment model, consisting of five different visual layers, was established to better quantify drivers’ visual perceptions by using deep neural networks. In this study, naturalistic driving data was collected on curve sections of typical two-lane rural roads in Tibet, China. There were 25 input variables extracted from the visual road environment, vehicle kinematics, and driver characteristics. Then, XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) and SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanation) methods were combined to build a prediction model. The results showed that our prediction model performed well, with an accuracy of 86.2% and an AUC value of 0.921. The average lead time of this prediction model was 4.4 s, sufficient for drivers to respond. Due to the advantages of SHAP, this study interpreted the impacting factors on this illegal behavior from three aspects, including relative importance, specific impacts, and variable dependency. After offering more quantitative information on the visual road environment, the findings of this study could improve the current prediction model and optimize road environment design, thereby reducing IROL on curve sections of two-lane rural roads.

Your place or mine? Exploring birdwatching tourists’ behaviour disturbing birds in a nature reserve

To manage for more sustainable wildlife viewing tourism, a better understanding of tourists’ behaviour that might disturb and negatively affect wildlife such as birds is needed. We conducted a qualitative case study of visitors to Hornøya, a protected bird cliff in Northern Norway. Behaviours with the potential to disturb seabirds at the site were explored using the theory of planned behaviour as a guiding framework. In-depth interviews and observations were used to explore why some visitors perform illegal or unwanted, potentially harmful behaviours, and to understand attitudes, social norms, and perceived behaviour control as influencing factors. The tourists visited Hornøya to experience seabirds in their natural surroundings, without causing harm. They were emotionally affected by the bird encounters, which may lead to thoughts and reflections about environmental challenges and nature protection. Visitors generally did not intend to disturb birds during these encounters. However, many visitors interpreted the birds’ behaviour as meaning that they were not easily disturbed. Poorly developed social norms among visitors, in combination with limited presence of surveillance/guide personnel, and strong behavioural control among some visitors (willingness and ability to engage in illegal behaviour) led to occasional breaching of formal rules as well as incidents of inappropriate, potentially disturbing behaviour towards birds. Experienced wildlife photographers tended to show willingness and ability to engage in illegal behaviour more often than the two other segments.

The disparate economic outcomes of stigma: Evidence from the arms industry

AbstractResearch SummaryOrganizational stigma has been commonly associated with a number of negative economic externalities in prior literature, but the mechanism by which this occurs and the extent of the associated consequences have received little attention. We address these gaps by theorizing that stigmatizing labels damage the legitimacy of the target by highlighting a deviation from the expectations of relevant audiences. We also argue that the content and focus of stigmatizing labels, as well as the features of the stigmatizer audience deploying them, will affect the magnitude of the negative economic consequences of stigma. Through an analysis linking the condemnation of arms producers in the media between 1998 and 2016 to cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) in the stock market, we find broad support for our arguments.Managerial SummaryThis paper examines the economic impact of stakeholder criticism on firms, using data from the global arms industry to develop a typology of criticism based on its content, focus, and origin. We find that criticism can negatively affect a firm's stock market returns, particularly when those criticizing have the authority to condemn specific behaviors. Civil society entities like nonprofits or the media, politicians, and economic players such as investors each have unique authority to criticize harmful behavior, illegal behavior, and unethical affiliations, respectively. Understanding the different types of criticism and their potential economic consequences can help firms better manage stakeholder relationships and mitigate negative impacts on their financial performance.

The concept of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine

The article is devoted to the study of the concept of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine. Attention is focused on the fact that the financing of elections should be an object of regulation in order to prevent and counteract such a phenomenon as corruption and such a phenomenon as the implementation of illegal extraterritorial behavior of one state against another through civilians – members of parliaments. Attention is focused on the fact that Russia, using financial resources, influenced the elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine, starting with the revival of Ukraine’s independence in 1991, and tried to endanger the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine and the development of Ukraine as a sovereign democratic independent state. It is emphasized that the attempt of the aggressor state - Russia - to exercise illegal but effective control through pro-Russian political forces in Ukraine was carried out with the use of various financial instruments of influence and manipulation in the elections of people’s deputies of Ukraine. The article analyzes international documents devoted to the issues of the constitutional and legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and conduct of elections. Signs of such a mechanism were identified based on the analysis of the provisions of each of these documents. Also, from the definitions of the concepts of the constitutional and legal mechanism of security, which are contained in the doctrine of the constitutional law of Ukraine, signs of this mechanism were revealed. The following author’s definition of the concept of the constitutional-legal mechanism of financial support for the preparation and holding of elections of People’s Deputies of Ukraine is a system of organizational-legal and legal means of influence, with the help of which financial opportunities are created for the realization of the right of a citizen of Ukraine to be elected to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, and in the case violation or threat of violation of this right - its protection and protection is carried out.

CROSS-BORDER CYBERCRIME

Electronic piracy is considered one of the electronic crimes sweeping our world today, and it is a crime of a material nature, which is represented in every illegal act or behavior related to any destination or in any way with computers and computer networks, that causes the victim to suffer a loss, and the perpetrator obtains or is able to obtain Any gain. These crimes often aim at stealing information in computer devices, or aim indirectly at the persons and parties concerned with that information. Crime of this kind has several names, including computer and Internet crimes, high-tech crimes, cybercrime, and white-collar crimes. Attacks are often against moral entities related to their strategic value, such as information stores, and this is the most important characteristic that distinguishes cybercrimes from other crimes. It relates to moral entities with material value or purely moral value or both together, and this is its basis without which it is not possible to imagine the existence of an electronic crime, and if it were not for this basis, it would be one of the ordinary crimes that are subject to the criminal law.

IMPLEMENTATION OF RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, THE INTENT OF PUNISHMENT, AND LEGAL CLARITY IN INDONESIA

This study looks at the fairness of restorative justice, the goal of punishment, and the need of legal certainty. According to the study's findings, restorative justice is still only being applied theoretically. In this instance, it emphasizes that the formalistic, long-established ideas of justice that have arisen in society and are applied in Indonesian customary law assemblies serve as the foundation for the genuine aim of sentencing. In contrast, the notions of individual deterrence and general deterrence call for actions to be absolute in order to produce a deterrent impact. Afterward, the idea of reform or rehabilitation was further developed. The use of restorative justice emphasizes the recovery of victims' material losses as a result of the perpetrators' unlawful acts, both physically and psychologically. This is done through a consensus-building process involving the perpetrator, the victim, the perpetrator's family, and the victim's family, as well as, if necessary, the community and the appropriate authorities. With relation to legal norms and values, this research methodology is normative juridical along with theories, legal doctrine, jurisprudence, applicable rules and regulations, as well as publications pertinent to the research topic. According to the study's findings, restorative justice is a noble form of justice when instances of illegal behavior have happened. Therefore, repair or restoration is crucial if the victim is to be rehabilitated or healed from the suffering he has endured on a material, physical, or psychic level. To be clear, restorative justice does not apply to all crimes; rather, it only does so in circumstances involving crimes against children, minor offenses, women in conflict with the law, and drug-related offenses. In order to provide clarity, there should be a firmness if the offender does not want to make restitution even though it is deemed capable of doing so in terms of material capabilities. There also needs to be concrete sanctions so that restorative justice is not only limited to other options; the legal framework for it should be expanded to the Constitution.

Identifying malicious accounts in blockchains using domain names and associated temporal properties

The rise in the adoption of blockchain technology has led to increased illegal activities by cybercriminals costing billions of dollars. Many machine learning algorithms are applied to detect such illegal behavior. These algorithms are often trained on the transaction behavior and, in some cases, trained on the vulnerabilities that exist in the system. In our approach, we study the feasibility of using the Domain Name (DN) associated with the account in the blockchain and identify whether an account should be tagged malicious or not. Here, we leverage the temporal aspects attached to the DN. Our approach achieves 89.53% balanced-accuracy in detecting malicious blockchain DNs. While our results identify 73769 blockchain DNs that show malicious behavior at least once, out of these, 34171 blockchain DNs show persistent malicious behavior, resulting in 2479 malicious blockchain DNs over time. Nonetheless, none of these identified malicious DNs were reported in new officially tagged malicious blockchain DNs.

Critical factors to influence the illegal dumping behavior of construction and demolition waste: An ISM-DEMATEL analysis

Illegal dumping behavior widely exists in the construction industry and is difficult to manage. What factors and how they influence the illegal dumping behavior of construction and demolition waste remains to be clarified. Specifically, this study employs an ISM-DEMATEL approach to investigate the critical factors that influence the illegal dumping behavior. It is found that the factors, ‘capital investment of enterprises’ and “stakeholders' willingness and attitude”, are vital to tackle the illegal dumping behavior of construction and demolition waste. Yet, compared with business-level factors, the macro-level factors such as ‘social norms and culture’ and ‘government incentive policies’ tend to be less influential. Moreover, enhancing the industry-wise administration system and practitioners' dedication to the issue can be an option to avoid illegal construction waste dumping. The results of this study serve to elucidate the influential factors and offer practical implications for addressing the issue of illegal dumping of construction and demolition waste.

Current directions of improving administrative and legal methods of countering extremism in modern conditions

Extremism is a big problem in the public life of citizens. The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation laid down the main directions of countering extremism. However, in the modern world, in which computing technologies and computer equipment are constantly developing and improving, a wide range of opportunities for communication between each other opens up for citizens who are prone to illegal behavior, including for calling for certain kinds of illegal actions. Thus, examining the administrative and legal mechanism of countering extremism, it should be noted that the subjects of counteraction are various state authorities, the key place among which is occupied by internal affairs bodies. Federal Law No. 3-FZ of February 7, 2011 "On the Police" imposed on the police a duty that is expressed in the prevention, detection and suppression of extremist activities of public associations, religious and other organizations, as well as citizens. Preventive work on countering extremism should be carried out at the level of formation of both individual and collective consciousness among various categories of the population, a negative attitude to acts of terror. Work in this direction should be an activity aimed at forming a belief in the unacceptability of these actions in society, non-recognition of such behavior in society, tolerant and humane attitude towards others.

The procedural fraud that justifies the appeal for a retrial according to the Jordanian Civil Procedure Code

The idea of ​​fraud is considered to have ethical dimensions that find its applications in a wide range of branches of law, both public and private, without exception. Its range is extended to the Civil Procedure Code, which is the common law for all other procedural laws. These procedural laws vary between judicial and non-judicial; Therefore, they must be protected from the fraud and manipulation of the opponents, which are usually aimed at prolonging the litigation period, depriving rights holders of their rights, or misleading justice for an unlawful purpose, which affects the proper course of justice. We have concluded that the possibility of applying the principle of cheating spoils everything on the rules of procedure. Especially, since this principle is one of the universal and stable legal principles without stipulating it in the law, as it is a principle linked to the public order. In addition, the methods of cheating are not limited to the illegal behavior of the opponent but extend to include the concealment and lying of the opponent. Therefore, it is necessary for the legislator to intervene to regulate the rules of fraud in the procedures with explicit texts and not to leave them to the general rules.

General theoretical analysis of legal security of business activity

Effective legal means of regulating relations between business entities and preventing violations of the latter's rights and interests protected by law include compliance by the participants of business relations, including business entities, state authorities, etc., with the requirements of current legislation. That is, such a legal regime is desirable, within which the best way to protect the rights of business entities is to prevent violations of the rights of these entities and, as a result, the absence of the very need to renew rights.
 It is clear that such a preventive influence on the behavior of business entities is the result not only of the conscientious behavior of the participants in economic relations, but, most likely, the consequence of the regulatory influence on the behavior of these entities of the norms of current legislation, which contains binding, prohibitive and other legal prescriptions (requirements), the existence of which is aimed at preventing violations of the rights and legally protected interests of business entities and restoring these rights and interests in cases of their violation, non-recognition or dispute.
 The need to protect subjective rights and interests arises primarily in connection with illegal behavior. However, protection can also take place in the event of a threat of violation of the right in the future, which may not always be considered illegal behavior.
 The threat may arise due to the actions of the right holder himself, for example, in connection with the loss of the corresponding document. Defense is also allowed in case of violation of interest by non-illegal behavior. A person can apply to the court for protection in the event of a conflict between his interests and the interests of other participants in the legal relationship, and even when the behavior of each of them is lawful.
 The subject of research in the article is specific norms of constitutional, civil, economic and administrative law, which establish legal guarantees of ensuring and protecting entrepreneurial activity by the norms of national law.

The mechanism of influence of the information space of the Internet on the illegal behavior of minors

The information space of the Internet network has a double character: on the one hand, it provides enormous opportunities for socialization and personal development, and on the other hand, it creates problems related to the use of information resources by criminal elements. The greatest criminogenic danger is represented by social networks, specialized sites and anonymous Internet spaces, the main audience of which are minors.
 The modern architecture of the Internet information and telecommunications network with its general accessibility, openness, necessity, decentralization and anonymity gives users a feeling of invulnerability, which allows them to spread harmful content and commit actions that violate the norms of national and international law. This combination leads to the fact that the Internet becomes one of the most powerful tools of criminalization and victimization of minors, which indicates the criminogenic potential of the Internet as a tool for spreading prohibited information.
 To form a certain stereotype of thinking on the Internet, special psychological technologies are used, such as: distraction or concentration of attention, creation of illusions of perception, mental simplification, limitation of material, distortion of facts, emotional incitement, etc.
 The most powerful means of influence in the information space of the Internet are films, online videos, jokes, anime and clips, which convey to the audience not dry facts, but through bright images, emotional characters, exciting plots, dictate certain models (stereotypes) of behavior and lifestyle paradigms.
 With the help of the content of the Internet, takes place popularization and adaptation of criminal norms and values, propaganda of the consumption of alcohol, narcotic drugs, psychotropic and new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, sexual promiscuity, extreme and pathological manifestations of human sexual orientation, frank encouragement of the widespread use of profanity and other forms of profanity, the formation of legal nihilism.

Behaviors of pedestrians on streets with roadside strips

Pedestrian behaviors in natural settings have been investigated mainly on roads with sidewalks or the corridors outside or inside buildings. The present study examined pedestrian behaviors on roads with roadside strips, which are popular in Japanese local areas. The purpose of the study was to investigate pedestrian behaviors and the factors affecting them. Observations were made at two single-lane streets in Tokyo with 0.9 m and 0.5 m roadside strips. A total of 2,476 pedestrians were observed for 2 days (1 weekday, 1 weekend day) in each location. Walking with traffic was more popular (61%) than walking against traffic. People seemed to walk either side of the street depending on their turn direction at the forward intersection. Illegal behavior of walking into the roadway was also observed in 46% of pedestrians. This behavior was more likely to appear on the streets with narrower roadside strips and when people walked in a group. As expected, males, young and mature adults, and single pedestrians walked faster than females, children and senior adults, and pedestrians in a group. When a female and a male walked abreast, males tended to reduce their walking speed considerably and walk on the roadway side (62%), taking care of females. Similar positional consideration for a vulnerable partner was also found in parent–child pairs. It was concluded that people are likely to violate traffic law if the violation serves a purpose, and they tend to behave altruistically towards others, even if there is no relevant rule.

Detection of Illegal Transactions of Cryptocurrency Based on Mutual Information

In recent times, there has been a swift advancement in the field of cryptocurrency. The advent of cryptocurrency has provided us with convenience and prosperity, but has also given rise to certain illicit and unlawful activities. Unlike classical currency, cryptocurrency conceals the activities of criminals and exposes their behavioral patterns, allowing us to determine whether present cryptocurrency transactions are legitimate by analyzing their behavioral patterns. There are two issues to consider when determining whether cryptocurrency transactions are legitimate. One is that most cryptocurrency transactions comply with laws and regulations, but only a small portion of them are used for illegal activities, which is related to the sample imbalance problem. The other issue concerns the excessive volume of data, and there are some unknown illegal transactions, so the data set contains an abundance of unlabeled data. As a result, it is critical to accurately distinguish between which transactions among the plethora of cryptocurrency transactions are legitimate and which are illegal. This presents quite a difficult challenge. Consequently, this paper combines mutual information and self-supervised learning to create a self-supervised model on the basis of mutual information that is used to improve the massive amount of untagged data that exist in the data set. Simultaneously, by merging the conventional cross-entropy loss function with mutual information, a novel loss function is created. It is employed to address the issue of sample imbalance in data sets. The F1-Score results obtained from our experimentation demonstrate that the novel loss function in the GCN method improves the performance of cryptocurrency illegal behavior detection by four points compared with the traditional loss function of cross-entropy; use of the self-supervised network that relies on mutual information improves the performance by three points compared with the original GCN method; using both together improves the performance by six points.

The compensation for harm: problems and prospects for further legislative reform

The compensation for harm is one of the most important legal ways to protect the violated civil rights and interests of the participants in civil relations. In modern market conditions, this method of protection is the main one for restoring the material condition or compensating for moral harm to the injured person. In the context of updating civil legislation and adapting it to EU legislation, there is a need for new approaches to the legal regulation of compensation for harm.
 The article examines the general terms of compensation for harm: the illegality of the behaviour of the person who caused the harm, the presence of harm, the causal relationship between the illegal behaviour and the harm, and the fault of the person who caused the harm.
 Special attention is paid to the issue of illegality (illegal behaviour) as a condition for compensation for damage. Here the theories of illegality are analysed: objective (normative) and objective-subjective.
 The definition of harm is investigated. The attention is focused on the ratio of the concepts of "harm" and "damages". Attention is drawn to the problems of legal regulation of the concept of moral harm. It is established that according to the practice of European Court of Human Rights, the content of moral (non-property) harm is determined differently in relation to individuals and legal entities. In addition, the methods of determining the amount of compensation for moral harm are analysed, in particular, the method of psychological research certified by the Ministry of Justice in Ukraine and registered in the Methodology of Psychological Research in Cases Involving the Infliction of Moral Suffering on a Person and Compensation for Moral Harm (registration number 14.1.75), which was put into effect from 18.01.2019.
 The article analyses the legal regulation of the causal relationship between illegal behaviour and harm in the Principles of European Tort Law (PETL).
 Based on the results of the research, it was concluded that in the future it is advisable to continue studying and improving the obligations to compensate for harm, in particular, the system of special torts provided for by Chapter 82 of the Civil Code of Ukraine is subject to revision.

Tax Avoidance of Multinational Enterprises and Its Countermeasures

With the deepening of the process of globalization, the types and scales of international tax avoidance activities are increasing, and the connections between countries and countries involved are also increasing. The international tax avoidance behavior represented by multinational corporations has become increasingly diversified and common, which Therefore, in order to bring the economy into line with the world and join the ranks of international competition, it is necessary to severely crack down on some unreasonable and illegal tax avoidance behaviors of multinational corporations. The trend of economic globalization in today's world is irreversible. The main carrier of economic globalization is transnational corporations, and transnational corporations are also the most frequent part of economic activities. Therefore, the main tax avoidance activities and tax avoidance methods of transnational corporations naturally become our focus. object. This paper uses case studies, comparative studies and other methods to analyze the tax avoidance of multinational companies, sorts out and summarizes Apple's tax avoidance cases and its main tax avoidance methods , and deduces the common tax avoidance methods of all multinational companies, and concludes that multinational companies are unreasonable. The dangers of tax avoidance. And the impact it will have on the international community, and finally put forward relevant feasible suggestions for the anti-tax avoidance work of various countries.

A lightweight convolutional neural network based on dense connection for open-pit coal mine service identification using the edge-cloud architecture

Remote sensing is an important technical tool for rapid detection of illegal mining behavior. Due to the complex features of open-pit coal mines, there are few studies about automatic extraction of open-pit coal mines. Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Dense Block, we propose a lightweight densely connected network-AD-Net for the extraction of open-pit coal mining areas from Sentinel-2 remote sensing images, and construct three sample libraries of open-pit coal mining areas in north-central Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province. The AD-Net model consists of two convolutional layers, two pooling layers, a channel attention module, and a Dense Block. The two convolutional layers greatly reduce the complexity of the model, and the Dense Block enhances the feature propagation while reducing the parameter computation. The application is designed in different modules that runs independently on different machines and communicate with each other. Furthermore, we create and build a unique remote sensing image service system that connects a remote datacentre and its associated edge networks, employing the edge-cloud architecture. While the datacentre acts as the cloud platform and is in charge of storing and processing the original remote sensing images, the edge network is largely utilised for caching, predicting, and disseminating the processed images. First, we find out the optimal optimizer and the optimal size of the input image by extensive experiments, and then we compare the extraction effect of AD-Net with AlexNet, VGG-16, GoogLeNet, Xception, ResNet50, and DenseNet121 models in the study area. The experimental results show that the combination of NIR, red, green, and blue band synthesis is more suitable for the extraction of the open-pit coal mine, and the OA and Kappa of AD-Net reach 0.959 and 0.918 respectively, which is better than other models and well balances the classification accuracy and running speed. With this design of edge-cloud, the proposed system not only evenly distributes the strain of processing activities across the edges but also achieves data efficiency among them, reducing the cost of data transmission and improving the latency.

Features of the Causal Complex of Regional Female Crime (On the Example of the Irkutsk Region, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Republic of Buryatia)

The article examines the features of regional crime among women in the Trans-Baikal region, Irkutsk region and the Republic of Buryatia. The study found significant differences in economic, historical and social factors of the regions compared to the Russian Federation. Criminological factors influencing the state of regional crime are determined. It is proved that one of the main reasons for the growth of crime in the regions is the high integration of the criminal environment into Siberian society, which caused a negative impact on the legal consciousness of the population and patterns of illegal behavior in resolving conflict situations and the implementation of life goals. The system of penitentiary institutions and its impact on the criminological situation in the regions are retrospectively considered. There is a difficult economic situation, expressed in a low level of cash income per capita (2.5 times lower compared to the Russian Federation) and a high level of unemployment (almost 2 times higher in the Trans–Baikal Territory and the Republic of Buryatia, and 1.5 times higher in the Irkutsk region). The employment of women in difficult working conditions also contributes to the development of states of maladjustment, internal hostility and stress, producing addictive behavior, while alcohol addiction is prevalent.

The Results of the Police Reform: An «Inside View»

The paper presents the results of a study of the most important changes in the activities of the Department of Internal Affairs (Police Service) after the 2011 reform. The success of the implementation of the principles of openness and publicity of police activities, building trust between the police and society, improving the image of the Department of Internal Affairs is characterized, the intensification of information and propaganda work is noted. The opinion of police officers on the prevalence of illegal and illegal behavior among employees is analyzed. Noting the downward trend in the facts of such behavior, among its determinants, the author names more active detection of violations of official discipline and offenses. An important advantage of modern police activity is the introduction and development of electronic document management, improvement of the regulatory framework, tightening control over budget spending. An increase in the level of education of police officers is also recognized as a positive trend, but the active introduction of distance learning significantly reduces its quality. The system of medical and pension provision for employees of internal affairs bodies remains satisfactory. Among the main problems that reduce the effectiveness of the professional activities of police officers are excessive document flow, imperfection of legislation, weak material and technical base, poor interaction of departments and services among themselves, insufficient number of employees and their heavy workload. The latter, according to the employees of the internal affairs bodies, is the most serious factor, which is expressed in the inconsistency of the official load with the established norms, in the performance of official duties during the vacation period, in the unjustified distribution of official duties. The solution of the problems of organizing and carrying out the professional activities of police officers indicated in the paper is necessary for effective crime prevention and increasing the authority of the police in society.