Open AccessThe Status and Tendencies of Drug-Related Crime at Transport Infrastructure Objects
Author(s) -
Olga Afanasyeva,
Valentina Shiyаn
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
narkokontrolʹ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2072-4160
DOI - 10.18572/2072-4160-2020-4-16-20
Subject(s) - narcotic drugs , christian ministry , scope (computer science) , business , state (computer science) , drug trafficking , russian federation , criminology , environmental health , political science , law , medicine , sociology , computer science , economic policy , algorithm , programming language
Purpose: based on the analysis of the official statistics of the Federal State Institution “GIAC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia” (information on the state of crime and the results of the investigation of crimes for the period 2015-2019; on crimes related to the illegal circulation of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors or analogues, potent substances, plants (or their parts) containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances or their precursors, new potentially dangerous psychoactive substances, and the persons who committed them; on the state of crime in the air transport of the Russian Federation; summary report on the state of crime in transport) to assess the state and trends of drug-related crime at transport infrastructure facilities. Methodology: fundamental provisions of national criminology, a set of general scientific and specific scientific research methods. Conclusions: drug trafficking at transport infrastructure facilities is one of the main threats to Russia’s transport security. The decrease in the number of registered crimes in the sphere of illegal drug trafficking recorded in 2019 and the number of persons who committed them, both in Russia as a whole and at transport infrastructure facilities, is primarily due to the effectiveness of preventive activities. Scientific and practical significance: the results of the study presented in this article contribute to expanding the scope of criminological knowledge about the current state and trends of drug-related crime at transport infrastructure facilities, justifying the development of more effective preventive measures (scientific significance); will allow the subjects of preventive activity to timely identify new criminal threats in transport, determine priority areas of prevention and optimize management decisions.