The mechanism of corrupt criminal behavior: features and criminological transformation
https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2024-14-6-143-159
Abstract
Relevance. Understanding a corrupt criminal act from the standpoint of the mechanism of its commission requires investigating the stages of its implementation through the prism of criminological transformation in interaction with ongoing processes in society and social prerequisites, which undoubtedly contributes to a more effective fight against corruption in general.
Purpose: is to identify the features of the mechanism of corrupt criminal behavior and its transformation.
Objectives: to determine the stages of the mechanism of corrupt criminal behavior, to identify their features, taking into account the forms of committing corrupt acts and their transformation in modern conditions, which is the basis for effective prevention, detection and suppression of corruption crimes.
Methodology. The research was based on dialectical, logical, system-structural, statistical methods; the method of analysis and comparison; the sociological method used in conducting the survey, the results of which are used in the study.
Results. The stages of the mechanism of corrupt behavior in the commission of crimes are analyzed; criminological features, forms of commission and types of corrupt criminal behavior are highlighted; individual aspects of the transformation of the elements of the mechanism under consideration are identified.
Conclusions. The results of the study serve to expand scientific knowledge about the mechanism of individual criminal behavior, taking into account the characteristics of a particular type of crime – corruption; at the same time, the author substantiates that the mechanism of corrupt criminal behavior and its transformation are most clearly manifested in the forms and means of committing a crime; in types of corrupt criminal behavior, but the triggering stage is the formation of motivation, it is difficult it is changeable, maturing under the influence of needs, interests, habits, etc., which determines one of the directions of preventing corruption – the impact on this component of the mechanism under consideration.
About the Author
E. V. Stebeneva
St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena V. Stebeneva, Candidate of Sciences (Juridical), Associate Professor, Doctoral Student of the Research Department
1 Pilyutova Str., St. Petersburg 198206
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Stebeneva E.V. The mechanism of corrupt criminal behavior: features and criminological transformation. Proceedings of Southwest State University. Series: History and Law. 2024;14(6):143-159. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21869/2223-1501-2024-14-6-143-159
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