Prevention of organized crime: main problems
Scientific and expert community have been discussing and elaborating conceptual apparatus of organized crime as well as main directions of struggle against this phenomenon since the second half of the last century. One of the most important State’s tasks has been prevention of criminality, with the most dangerous organized form among them. Prevention of lawbreaking should be based on clear understanding of complex of social and economic causes of this negative phenomenon. Prevention can’t be effective without knowing its reasons. General social prevention should play leading role. Just this type must destroy causative chain which gives rise to criminality. Coordinate program of struggle with criminality is the place where prevention should be the goal and final result. Only complex approach will make it possible to unite criminality prevention with problems in economy, policy, ideology, stereotypes of social consciousness. Special preventive measures of law enforcement agencies are aimed at causes of individual and group criminal behavior. Exactly these law enforcement agencies, with Federal security service of Russia among them, contribute to general social prevention of criminality. Consolidation of forces of society and State in struggle with phenomenon is one of the main directions in prevention of organized crime because not only actions of defense and law enforcement agencies are necessary for this struggle but joint actions as well. It should be mentioned that effective influence on causes of organized crime is possible at the State’s level. They are in social, political, economic, moral and spiritual spheres, in struggle with drug addiction and illegal drug-smuggling and in control for financial sphere and prevention of corruption. It is stated that law enforcement agencies in their work face with different definitions of organized crime that affects the work’s efficiency and create collisions in strategic partnership with international organizations in the given sphere. Thereupon, general approaches, unified conceptual apparatus are necessary for struggle with organized crime.