Criminological characteristics of crimes related to drug trafficking

Issue: №9, 2019

It was noted that criminology considers crime related to drug trafficking from two perspectives: drug addiction is a “background” phenomenon, antisocial behaviour that contributes to the emergence and existence of criminality; section of a special criminological science that determines the main characteristics of drug crime, which covers crimes directly related to the “background” phenomenon of drug addiction, and which, in turn, contribute to the emergence, existence and spread of this negative social phenomenon. The objective of the work is to study the problem and to analyze the criminological characteristics of crimes related to drug trafficking. The theoretical basis of the publication is the dialectical method and the main provisions of the rules of law for the analysis and evaluation of the identified range of problems. The following methods were used in the research process: abstract and logical (for theoretical generalization and drawing conclusions); analytical (in the study of theoretical thoughts and their interpretation within the framework of legal acts), as well as applied methods of structural analysis, comparison and generalization. Methodological basis is the works of domestic scholars, materials of periodicals. It is stated that the social danger of drug addiction is conditioned by two aspects: medical and social. It has been concluded that drug addiction and crime are closely related, the increase in the number of drug addicts is proportionally reflected in the increase of crime, the commission of criminal offenses in a state of drug intoxication. This is caused not only by the destruction of physical and moral health, but also by the degradation of the individual, the increasing demand for expensive drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors. It has been noted that rising demand has led to an increase in supply, and numerous suicides, domestic and industrial injuries are all due to drug use, which also leads to overdose deaths. References 1. The Fight against Drugs in Ukraine in 2017. UA INFO. URL: http://uainfo.org/blognews/1517898080-borba-s-narkotikami- v-ukraine-v-2017-m-godu-infografika.html (in Ukrainian). 2. Humanization of the State Policy on Drug Users. The Study was Conducted by the Public Organization “Eurasian Institute of Drug Policy” in 2016-2017 on Request and with the Financial Support of the International Renaissance Foundation. URL: http://www.irf.ua/content/files/drugpolicy.pdf (in Ukrainian). 3. Zakaliuk A.P. Contemporary Ukrainian Criminology Course: Theory and Practice: in 3 vol. Kyiv: Publishing House "In Yure", 2007. pp. 427-428 (in Ukrainian). 4. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, New York, March 30, 1961, as amended on March 25, 1972. URL: http://www.ecad.ru/oon/oon61-00.html. 5. Unified State Register of Judgments. URL : http://www.reyestr.court.gov.ua/Page/1 (in Ukrainian). 6. On Measures for Counteracting Illegal Circulation of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors: Law of Ukraine of February 15, 1995 No. 62/95-ВР. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua. 7. On the Registered Criminal Offenses and the Results of their Pre-Trial Investigation for 2017 // Statistical Information on the State of Crime and the Results of Prosecutorial Investigative Activity. Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. URL: https://www.gp.gov.ua/en/stst2011.html?dir_id=113281&libid=100820&c=edit&_c=fo# (in Ukrainian). 8. Crime Prevention: Textbook / O.M. Dzhuzha, V.V. Vasylevych, O.F. Hida et al.; ed. by Doctor of Law, Prof. O.M. Dzhuzha, Attika, Kyiv, 2011, 720 p. (in Ukrainian). 9. National Report for 2016 on the Narcotic Drugs Situation in Ukraine (according to 2015 data). An In-Depth Review of the Narcotic Drugs Situation in Ukraine for the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Kyiv, 2016. URL: http://www.slideshare.net/zorrgelviv/2016-69207345. (in Ukrainian). 10. National Report on Narcotic Drugs Situation in Ukraine in 2017 (according to 2016 data). URL: http://www.ummcda. org.ua (in Ukrainian). 11. Tkachenko I.M. Concept and Criminological Characte-ristics of Drug Addiction in Ukraine, Young Scientist. 2014. № 10 (13), pp. 65-67 (in Ukrainian). 12. Official Records of the Economic and Social Council Fourteenth Session. Supplement № 1 (E/2331). 12 p.

Keywords : drug trafficking, crime, criminal characteristics, drug control, drug crimes, criminal offenses, drug intoxication

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