The contract as a type of agreement in operational-search activities
The article examines the legal nature of the contract as a type of agreement between an operative and a confidant. It also points out that the interaction between confidants and operatives occupies a special place in crime prevention. It is necessary to establish subject-subject interaction with the "counterparty" - a confidant in the person of citizens and convicted people with a view to effective functioning of the mechanism of crime prevention. The registration of cooperation is carried out in an unspoken form by signing a contract. The authors, first of all from the perspective of the deterministic approach, reveal the main characteristics and structure of the contract. In order to identify the specific legal content of this type of agreement, the authors propose to enshrine the concept of the contract in a normative legal act and analyse such concepts as agreement, transaction and contract. The authors consider further research to be necessary for procedural enshrinement of the algorithm of a confidant’s actions, as well as the subsequent legal transformation of the parties' contractual obligations in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and the tactics of carrying out operational-search activities on the basis of the Federal Law "On operational-search activities".