Open AccessCOMPOSITION, STRUCTURE, AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS OF CRIMINAL GROUPS ORGANIZED ON AN ETHNIC BASIS: CURRENT STATE AND TRENDS
Author(s) -
V.G. Rubtsov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. èkonomika i pravo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2446
pISSN - 2412-9593
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9593-2020-30-5-740-746
Subject(s) - ethnic group , criminology , composition (language) , state (computer science) , personality , political science , criminal behavior , psychology , social psychology , law , mathematics , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm
In the article, the author notes the increased influence of ethnic criminal groups on the criminal situation in Russia. This is due to the specific patterns of their activities. To describe these regularities, the criminalistic characteristics of the criminal activity of ethnic criminal formations can be represented by the following elements: 1) the composition and structure of the formation; 2) the characteristics of the participants' personality; 3) the direction of criminal activity; 4) types of criminal activity; 5) external relations of the formation. Based on empirical data from 2008 and 2019, a comparative analysis of these elements was conducted. The study showed that over the past decade, the activities of these groups, as well as those of other criminal groups, have been reoriented from self-serving and violent methods of criminal activity to intellectual criminal activity, primarily in the economic sphere. In addition, more active use of information technologies in criminal activities is noted; the share of leaders of groups with higher education has increased. More specific changes occurred in the composition, structure, external relations of these groups. As a result of these changes, the activities of criminal groups organized on an ethnic basis are becoming even more closed.