Criminological transformation of corruption and the mechanism of counteraction

Relevance. Corruption as a negative social phenomenon, necessitates the identification of the most effective measures for its prevention, highlighting the need to find mechanisms for countering corruption and identifying priority anti-corruption activities. The expression of corruption through corruption crimes and other corruption-related offenses that are integrated into social relations in various social spheres determines the problem of insufficient study of corruption as a sociocultural phenomenon and its features, changes, and transformations in modern society.

Research objective is to identify the features of corruption transformations and the mechanism of criminological counteraction to it as a negative sociocultural phenomenon in modern society.

Objectives: scientific understanding of corruption as a sociocultural phenomenon and its transformations in modern society; modeling the mechanism of countering corruption as a criminological construct and disclosure of its members conceptual, strategic, and subject-object elements under the anti-corruption ideological principle.

The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific and specific scientific methods of cognition, including dialectical, logical-epistemological, and gnoseological methods, as well as functional, comparative legal, sociological, and psychological methods, and the method of modeling and risk analysis.

Results. The author identifies possible transformations of corruption as a sociocultural phenomenon and its criminological prerequisites; the features of corruption's transformation in modern conditions are analyzed through the transformation of the criminal's personality and corrupt criminal behavior, which predetermined anti-corruption measures and formed the basis for the mechanism of criminological counteraction to corruption.

Conclusions. The research results make a certain contribution to solving the problem of preventing corruption by developing a model of the criminological mechanism of countering the phenomenon under study and identifying the elements (links) of the components of this construct, taking into account the current transformations of corruption acts and the personality of the criminal, which served as the basis for the author's proposals for improving anticorruption activities and the legislation that ensures them.

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