Open AccessMigration crime in the Republic of Bashkortostan: features and trends
Author(s) -
S. V. Egoryshev
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
siberian socium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2587-8484
DOI - 10.21684/2587-8484-2021-5-3-27-38
Subject(s) - relevance (law) , population , subject (documents) , politics , process (computing) , sociology of scientific knowledge , law enforcement , sociology , political science , criminology , social science , law , computer science , demography , library science , operating system
The relevance of the article is determined by the fact that population migration, being a kind of horizontal mobility process, has both a positive and a negative impact not only on the demographic situation in the country as a whole and its regions, but also on many socio-economic and political processes taking place in them. The migration process and the socio-demographic groups participating in it have become the subject of study by specialists representing various branches of scientific knowledge. This allows, from the methodological point of view, from the standpoint of the ratio of the general and the particular, and at the interdisciplinary level, to study migration as a complex, contradictory, social process with significant latency. One of the problems that has not yet received proper scientific understanding is the impact of migration on the state of the crime situation in the new social environment. The study of this problem, which is the purpose of this article, will not only bring new knowledge to sociological and criminological sciences, but will also contribute to the improvement of migration policy, law enforcement and social work with migrants. The migration process and its participants have a complex structure and differentiation, therefore the research topic can be disclosed taking into account this differentiation, which is impossible to do within the framework of one article. Therefore, the object of analysis in the article is external migrants — foreign citizens and representatives of the CIS countries, and the subject is formed by the crimes committed by them and against them. The analysis also includes crimes related to migration. The empirical basis of the study was the data of demographic and criminal statistics for the period from 2012 to 2020, presented at the levels of Russia and the Republic of Bashkortostan. This made it possible to characterize the features, trends in dynamics and the content of the research subject. The established dependence of the external migration process dynamics and crimes committed by its participants should be investigated taking into account the criminogenic component general state of migration and the related possibilities of statistical accounting and sociological research that complements it. In the context of the topic under consideration, an author’s addition to the classification of migrants entering from abroad is proposed.