Child support alimony evasion in 1960-2018

The article is devoted to the analysis of statistics related to the avoidance of child support alimony established by a court order. The object, the objective side, the subject and the circle of the victims of these crimes are analyzed. The main range of issues is focused on the dynamics of registered crimes, both by region and Ukraine as a whole, and provides a general description of them. The study is based on official statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine 1960-2018. Materials are supplemented by primary statistics. The purpose and purpose of this article is to conduct a historical and legal analysis of the origin and development of alimony obligations in the years 1960-2001, to identify the most effective and progressive period for the development of criminal legislation to counterfeit alimony. The overall crime rate can be traced to the tables provided in the article. Statistics on the evasion of alimony in the Soviet period and the period of independence of Ukraine show that the number of facts of evasion of alimony in these two periods is almost the same, and that the number of identified persons who evaded alimony in the period of independence of Ukraine is more than almost 1,5 times. Of the crimes solved, the largest number of alimony payments were committed in both periods by persons who had previously been criminally responsible for this type of crime. At the same time, both in Soviet and in the period of Ukraine's independence, the largest number of alimony payments was registered in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Luhansk, Odesa and Kharkiv regions. The relevance and scientific novelty of the study. Elements of the scientific novelty of the article are the information base of the research, as the work is based on the results of the study of the reporting data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for 1960-2018. The materials can be useful in the research field, in the educational process, etc.