Methodological foundations of criminological research of demonstrative-protest crime: purpose, principles, objectivity of the research
The purpose of the criminal study of demonstrative-protest crime is to describe this crime in a theoretically verified and practice-oriented language, to demonstrate its characteristics, patterns and trends that are important for the current and future work on its prevention. The methodological principles of the study of demonstrative-protest crime cannot differ from the principles of cognition of other types of crime. The article substantiates that the criminal-legal and deviantological approaches, forming each of their own intervals in the understanding of demonstrative-protest crime, should not be opposed to each other, but be organically combined. The initial methodological principles and methodological requirements for the criminological analysis of demonstrative-protest crime in Russia are defined.