THE PANDEMIC AND CRIMINALISATION OF SOCIETY: HOW TO PREVENT A VICIOUS CIRCLE. PART 1
Purpose of the paper: to offer recommendations for combating crime based on the analysis of quantitative and qualitative crime data for the period of the COVID-19 virus pandemic. Methods of study: analysis, synthesis, deduction, sociological method, comparative legal method, formal legal method, statistical method. Results obtained: a justification is given for a forecast for growth of the total number of profit-motivated as well as violent profit-motivated offences interconnected with other negative consequences of the pandemic, offences related to interpersonal and especially domestic conflicts (domestic violence), political offences, offences committed by labour migrants, and those committed using information and telecommunication technologies. A number of recommendations for reducing the criminalisation of the Russian society are also proposed.