Abstract: The subject of this article is the activity of economic security and anti-corruption units during identification and documentation of economic crimes in the sphere of state defense procurement. The purpose of this article is a comprehensive study of individual aspects of the activity of economic security and anti-corruption units to identify and document economic crimes in the sphere of state defense procurement. The research methodology is based on general scientific (logical, systemic, analysis, induction, deduction, interpretation, generalization), specific scientific (specific sociological, formal legal) methods. The use of methods allowed us to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the activities of the studied units in identifying economic crimes in the sphere of state defense procurement. The analysis of theoretical provisions allowed us to formulate proposals for improving the activities of the studied units. The scientific novelty of the study lies in identifying criminal schemes and mechanisms for committing economic crimes in the sphere of state defense procurement. Based on the results of the analysis of law enforcement practice materials and the activities of economic security and anti-corruption units, we confirm the fact of an increase in illegal activities in the process of implementing the state defense order, in particular, related to the economic component; schemes and mechanisms for illegal withdrawal of budget funds into the shadow economy in the framework of the execution of the state defense order are identified; conclusions are formulated affecting the improvement of the efficiency of economic security and anti-corruption units in the framework of the problem under study. In addition, in the conclusion we put forward ideas related to increasing the efficiency of the activities of economic security and anti-corruption units in identifying and documenting economic crimes within the framework of the implementation of the state defense order.

Keywords: economic crimes, warning, disclosure, documentation, identification, state defense order, anti-corruption, economic security, divisions, activity

Abstract: The fight against criminal encroachments related to the embezzlement of budget funds allocated to finance national projects is currently one of the priorities of the operational and official activities of the internal affairs bodies. In this connection, the object of the study is the state of crime in the field of implementation of national projects, which is studied through the prism of a territorial feature, an object of criminal law protection and a subject of crime detection. The subject of the study is the identification of problematic issues and the development of new approaches to improving the effectiveness of operational investigative activities aimed at detecting crimes in the implementation of national projects. The analysis of published scientific papers allowed us to conclude that insufficient attention is paid to the problem of organizing an operational search, while it is at the stage of initiating an operational check that employees experience difficulties.  To achieve their goals and objectives, the authors used methods of formal logic, such as induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis, comparison, statistical methods, concrete historical and formal legal methods. The authors of the article calculated the criminological burden of crimes related to the implementation of national projects in the context of federal districts and concluded about the territorial heterogeneity of this type of crime. A group of corruption-related crimes in the implementation of national projects was singled out separately, the structure of crimes in this group indicates problems in detecting crimes under Articles 285, 286 and 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, their share in the total number of corruption-related crimes is less than 6%. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of a universal algorithm for the implementation of an operational search to identify crimes provided for in Articles 285, 286 and 292 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which are committed during construction and installation works. The universal nature of the algorithm lies in the absence of reference to the specifics of a specific national project. The proposed algorithm is adapted to different stages of the development of federal budget funds: the stage of competitive procedures and the stage of execution of the municipal contract.

Keywords: operational search, municipal contract, operational search activity, corruption, police, detection of crime, criminality, budgetary funds, national project, operational examination

Abstract: Based on scientific sources and practical experience, the article examines problematic issues of criminalistic support for the disclosure and investigation of crimes related to the occupation of a person of the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. The subject of the study is some features of the identification, disclosure and investigation of the crime provided for in Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation The object of the study is public relations arising in the process of countering organized crime, in particular criminal authorities having the statute "thief in law", "posenets", "looking". The author examines in detail such aspects of the topic as the peculiarities of identifying persons occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy, establishing the circumstances of "crowning" or obtaining the appropriate status. Within the framework of forensic support, the issues of technical-forensic and tactical-forensic support for the detection of signs of a crime, material and ideal traces, as well as the specifics of their fixation and use in proving criminal cases are considered. The main conclusions of the study: effective forensic support for the disclosure and investigation of a crime under Article 210.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy" is not possible without a clear legislative definition of the concept of a person occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy. To increase the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime, it is necessary to develop methodological recommendations and algorithms for identifying and bringing to criminal responsibility persons occupying the highest position in the criminal hierarchy.

Keywords: criminal subculture, thug, community service holder, looking, posenets, higher position, leader of criminal communities, thief in law, criminal community, criminal hierarchy

Abstract: The subject of scientific research is the peculiarities of legal regulation of legal relations arising during the implementation of operational investigative detention (capture) of persons of operational interest during operational investigative measures provided for in Article 6 of Federal Law No. 144-FZ of August 12, 1995 "On operational investigative activities". The existing criminal procedural grounds for detention do not take into account the specifics and specifics of the activities of operational officers, which causes legal uncertainty in law enforcement practice. Taking into account the practical orientation of the use of operational-investigative detention (seizure), it should be noted that in the normative legal acts regulating the operational-investigative activities of the Department of Internal Affairs there are no norms regulating the grounds and conditions for the use of operational-investigative detention. These grounds should be taken into account and fixed in industry legislative acts, taking into account the specifics of the activities of operational units. Research methods: the method of comparative jurisprudence in the study of the grounds for detention; the method of comparative analysis in determining the compliance of the capabilities of operational units in the implementation of operational investigative detention. The author investigates the actual problems of law enforcement practice concerning the implementation by employees of operational units of such a measure of coercion as operational search detention (seizure). The scientific novelty lies in the analysis of regulatory legal acts regulating the grounds and procedure for detention; in proposals for improving operational investigative legislation. The main conclusions of the study are the need to supplement Article 6 of the Federal Law "On Operational investigative Activities" with the operational investigative measure "Operational investigative detention (seizure)", as well as to supplement Article 15 of the Federal Law with norms regulating the grounds and conditions, the procedure for conducting, the limits of the implementation of operational investigative detention (seizure).

Keywords: operational officer, operational and investigative activities, operational units, arrest of the criminal, operational-investigative event, capture of the criminal, criminal investigation, crime, law, solving crimes

Abstract: The article examines the patterns of the spread of economic crime in the Russian Federation, as well as the law enforcement practice of combating economic and corruption crimes related to the distribution and use of budget funds allocated for the implementation of national projects and federal targeted programs. The increase in embezzlement of budget funds has a negative impact on all aspects of public life: it destabilizes the rule of law, disorganizes public relations, undermines trust in the highest state authorities, as a result of which it has a corrupting effect on the administrative apparatus, leads to budget depletion, etc. In this regard, the priority task is to organize proper control over the distribution and expenditure of budget funds in all areas of the economy. The article provides a theoretical and practical analysis of the essence of criminological, operational-investigative and criminal-legal bases for combating economic and corruption-related crimes related to the distribution and use of budget funds allocated for the implementation of national projects and federal targeted programs. The novelty lies in a number of conclusions formulated in the course of the study. In particular: a) the signs of the crimes under consideration are highlighted; b) the main directions of criminal aspirations in the field of economic activity are identified; c) the methods of committing the theft in question are highlighted, a number of signs are identified that indicate an increasing public danger of economic crime, etc.

Keywords: economic security, the method of committing the crime, the identity of the criminal, Embezzlement of budget funds, economic crimes, corruption-related crimes, anti-corruption, prevention of theft, Economy, budget funds

Abstract: The article considers the issues of the essence and the legal basis of criminal tracking activities, and the organization of these activities at the local level. The author analyzes the current problems related to the organization of criminal tracking activities by local internal affairs agencies. The article characterizes the tasks of tracking activities, describes conditions in which internal affairs agencies perform their duties at a local level, and detects factors influencing the operating conditions in this field of activity. The author analyzes forces and facilities used for criminal tracking, its results, and cooperation between internal affairs units in criminal tracking. The article contains suggestions about the optimization of organization and organizational support of criminal tracking activities by internal affairs agencies at a local level.

Keywords: operational search activity, bodies of internal affairs, legal framework, missing persons, district level, investigative work, search, information systems, operational situation, tasks of investigative work

Abstract: The research object is the criminogenic aspects of the economic situation in the Russian Federation. The research subject includes the patterns and tendencies of emergence and development of economic crime in the Russian Federation; criminal legal prohibitions of wrongful deeds in the economic field; law enforcement practice of struggle against economic crimes committed by organized groups and criminal organizations.   The purpose of the research is the development of scientifically-grounded suggestions and recommendations aimed at raising the effectiveness of  enforcement of economic crimes committed by organized groups and criminal organizations.  The research methods include content-analysis of documents, analysis, synthesis, description and comparison. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the theoretical analysis of the essence of struggle against economic crimes committed by organized groups and criminal organizations. Some other provisions of the article are remarkable for their scientific novelty, particularly: a) the authors outline the features of modern organized criminal groups and criminal organizations; b) the authors define the main directions of criminal aspirations of organized criminal groups in the economic field; c) the authors outline the methods of economic crimes committing used by organized groups and criminal organizations.    The key findings of the article are: based on the established tendencies and patterns, the authors believe that the main directions of the further improvement of internal affairs bodies’ activities, particularly the investigation activities of economic security and anti-corruption enforcement units, in the field under consideration, will be the improvement of the work of specialized internal affairs units and their involvement in solving the tasks of struggle against economic crimes committed by organized groups and criminal organizations by means of subversive operations against economic and financial grounds of criminal organizations and their corrupt connections, and by means of effective information and analytical work, prognostication, planning, internal and external interaction.   

Keywords: operational search activities, operational units, economic crimes, investigation of economic crime, economic security, counteraction to economic crime, criminal organization, economic crime, organized criminal groups, criminal communities

Abstract: The object of research in this article is the activities of a person who had left fingerprints and the activities of a law-enforcement officer using a mobile device generating iodine vapour aimed at the detection of a person suspected of having committed an offence, and the treatment of the detected fingerprint with ozone-air mixture which would decolourise it. A complex of a mobile device for treating fingerprints with iodine vapour, photographic and video equipment, and an ozonator will increase the effectiveness of investigative activities of p[erative units during law-enforcement intelligence operations. The research is based on the dialectical method of cognition, general scientific methods: observation, experiment, comparison, description, measurement, etc., and general logical methods and research techniques. The scientific novelty consists in the creation of a way to use iodine vapour and ozone-air mixture to treat fingerprints, which would help to get the suspect’s fingerprints quickly, without disarranging the evidences, without any traces after the registration of a fingerprint, and without the seizure of the object bearing the fingerprint. Such a mechanism used during law-enforcement intelligence operations would help identify the person suspected of having committed an offence.   

Keywords: identification study, iodine vapor, tracing, trace identification, fingerprints, Operational-search activity, comparative study, ozonizer, ozone-air mixture, forensic records

Abstract: The research subject is the patterns of formation and use of the results of investigation activities based on information support of economic security and corruption combating unites in the struggle against corruption in the field of road traffic safety. The author considers and studies some peculiarities of organizing information support and analytical work in the context of effective corruption combating in the field of road traffic safety. Special attention is given to the mechanism and the sources of information forming, the most effective levels of information and analytical work, and the role of analysis in comprehensive use of information for combating corruption in the above mentioned sphere. The research methodology is based on the fundamental provisions of epistemology, the system-structural and system-pragmatist methods. The author develops the practically efficient method of information support of economic security and corruption combating units aimed at detection, investigation and prevention of corruption in the field of road traffic safety. The method is based on information and analytical work, taking into account various conditions and situations occurring at operative support of this sphere, and its significance when implemented within an organization aimed at solving operative, tactical and strategic tasks.  

Keywords: road industry, combating corruption, information support, operational service, corruption, operational investigative activities, information and analytical work, operational units, road activity, corruption crimes

Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the methods of extortion including those with the participation of organized criminal groups which are one of the central elements of the forensic characterization of this category of cases. For disclosing the stated topic of the article, the author based on the analysis highlighted three fundamental positions of a number of authors on the notion of the method of committing a crime as a whole, where on the basis of their critical analysis the author’s approach to this is sufficiently debatable, including relatively organized extortion. The results presented in the article are obtained on the basis of the use of such methods of scientific analysis as comparative legal analysis, deduction, induction and synthesis. The author of the article substantiates the fallacy of some positions of individual authors regarding the structure of the method of extortion with the participation of organized criminal groups. The influence of the qualitative characteristics of members of an organized group on the method of extortion is also shown. On the basis of the conducted research, a conclusion was drawn on the peculiarities of the correlation connection between the situation and the way of extortion.

Keywords: forensic characteristics, structure, criminal, professional experience, organized extortion, crime, commission, way, extortion, analysis

Abstract: The article is devoted to the topical issues about the structural construction of an organized criminal group. In order to develop an original approach to the problem, the authors analyze positions of the leading scientists regarding the structure of organized criminal groups. They analyze the main views of the lawyers on the matter and create a model of today's criminal pyramid and give a criminological description of it based on the specific features of its actors. The authors explain their reason for why the legal community defines levels of organized crime and carry out a content analysis of the sources that describe positions of the lawyers on the matter. As a result of their research, the authors make a conclusion that the evolutionary development of the society has been having a significant effect on the structural changes of organized crime. The authors also give a scheme of how they view the main areas of criminal behavior of an organized criminal group and describe prerequisites for the extension and reinforcement of the criminal environment. 

Keywords: criminogenic situation, a crime, crime, criminal activity, community, criminal group, organized crime, accomplices, fight, legislation

Abstract: In her article Mikhalina underlines the fact that it is important to know personality traits of a participant of an ethnic organized group committing acquisitive and violent crimes to develop measures aimed at prevention of acquisitive and violent crimes committed by participants of ethnic organized groups. Within the framework of the research the author of the article examines typical personality traits of a participant of an ethnic organized group committing acquisitive and violent crime. In her research Mikhalina provides results of a survey of convicted individuals who committed acquisitive and violent crime as part of an ethnic organized group. She analyzes typical personality traits of a participant of an ethnic organized group committing acquisitive and violent crime. The research is based on such methods of research as the dialectical method, analysis, synthesis, and survey. The main conclusions of the research are the following: analysis of personality traits of ethnic organized group participants committing acquisitive and violent crime is very important for criminal science; analysis of typical personality traits of ethnic organized group participants committing acquisitive and violent crimes is not limited to represented data, it is only the tip of the iceberg in the analysis of personality traits of aforesaid individuals. 

Keywords: personality characteristics, crime prevention, ethnic organized groups, mercenary and violent crimes, member of an organized group, ethnic crime, identity of the offender, composition of the organized group, age of participants, character personality

Abstract: The subject of the research is the particularities of legal regulation of operative investigative arrest as part of operative investigative activities set forth by Article 6 of the Federal Law No. 144 of 12 August, 1995 'On Operative Investigative Activity'. According to the author of the article, current legal grounds for arrest do not consider particular features of investigative unit activities which causes certain difficulties in the law-enforcement practice. Taking into account the practical orientation of performing operative investigative arrest or seisure in the process of operative investigative activity, it is necessary to note that legal acts regulating this activity lack standards that would regulate the procedure, grounds and conditions and other aspects of applying operative investigative arrest or seizure. Based on the author, these standards should be described and fixed in legal documents. The author has used the following research methods: comparative law method to analyse legal grounds for arrest or seizure; and comparative analysis method to define conformity of possible operative subdivisions in the process of operative investigative arrest. The author focuses on oustanding problems of law-enforcement practice assocaited with the implementation of such enforcement measure as operative investigative arrest or seizure by operative subdivision officers. The scientific novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author conducts an analysis of legal acts regulating the procedure and grounds for arrest and offers recommendations on how to improve operative investigative activity. The main conclusions of the research are as follows: there is a need to amend Article 15 of the Federal Law 'On Operative Investigative Activity' with particular legal standards regulating the grounds and conditions, procedure, and limits of operative investigative arrest or seizure of suspects or other persons in the process of operative investigative activity. 

Keywords: detention, operative investigative event, investigative event, investigative detention, operations officer, employee of criminal investigation department, criminal investigation department, operative investigative activity, police, operational units

Abstract: The article is devoted to methods and means of conducting investigative activities aimed at obtaining computer information. Based on introduction of boundary conditions in order to define a typical object to be researched as part of conducting an investigative activity, the author describes specific approaches to the preparation of such investigative activity aimed at obtaining computer information. The author analyzes development prospects of investigative activity in the sphere of computer technologies and clarifies a classification of programmed and technical means designated for unofficial obtaining of computer information. The author analyzes particularities of objects of investigative activity in the sphere of computer information and conducts a comparative analysis of typical programmed devices that may be interesting for the actors of investigative activities conducted by internal affairs. The author also makes an attempt to substantiate general principles of conducting investigative activities aimed at obtaining computer information depending on the classification of computer systems under research. The author also substantiates means and methods required to conduct an investigative activity 'obtaining computer information' as well as outlines boundary conditions for conducting an investigative activity under research. 

Keywords: operational-search situation, computing devices, computer forensics, special equipment, obtaining computer information, operational-search events, computer techologies, operatively-search activity, computer information, access to information

Abstract: The article is devoted to the main provisions regulating arrangement and strategies of detecting individuals and facts of operational interest in the sphere of involvement of minors into prostition. This kind of crime is not so frequently encountered as, for example, property offences but is of certain interest for legal practitioners. Based on the results of the survey that involved Internal Affairs operating officers, the author of the article describe circumstances that influence the low level of such crime detection. The author also offers the most efficient operating methods and strategies of detecting organized crime groups which members commit this type of crime. The methodology of the research is based on general laws and principles of the dialectical approach to the reality. The author has also used general and special research methods such as observation, comparative law method, logical legal method, surveys, etc.). The issues covered by the author of the article allow to define certain aspects that canbe used in fighting against involvement into and arrangement of prostitition activities including involvement of minors as well as to describe the most efficient operating methods and means of detecting organized crime groups committing this kind of crime, and the way of their documenting. 

Keywords: public morality, detection, a warning, private detective, interview, operatively-search actions, involvement, prostitution, Minors, reconnaissance and search activities

Abstract: The research focuses on the whorls of fingerprints in the context of psycho-dermatoglyphic links. The author reasons the principle of integrity of psycho-dermatoglyphic links which makes it possible to carry out psychodiagnostics on the base of the revealed congenital cerebral pathology and its minimal clinical forms. The correlation between the system of dermatoglyphic features (general and particular) and the functional state of the brain structures accentuates the psychodiagnostic importance of psycho-dermatoglyphic links for the creation of a psychological profile. A correlative pleiad of neuropsychological and psychophysiological links forms a reflected system of correlation presented in the complex of dermal features. The calculation and analysis of these features is aimed at acquisition of psychodiagnostic information about the owner of the fingerprint. The methodology of the research contains the innovative approach to the analysis of psycho-dermatoglyphic links. The author uses the psycho-dermatoglyphic method based on statistical and morphological analysis of fingerprints. Particular dermatoglyphic features and rudiments are considered to be diagnostically important. The author uses integral analysis of general and particular features formed in the conditions of a system. The applied system of a fingerprint mapping and the analysis of psycho-dermatoglyphic links for establishing of the level of social adaptation are certified with a patent in the sphere of “Forensic medicine”. The psycho-dermatoglyphic method of the fingerprint owner establishing gives the opportunity to single out the leading psychical features of a person which influence the level of social adaptation. Psycho-dermatoglyphic links considered from the position of psychogenetics help to reveal the psycho-dermatoglyphic markers reflecting the individual genetic program of a person. 

Keywords: social adaptation, psycho-dermatoglyphics, fingerprint, psychic setup, brain, behavior, personality, pathology, integrity, genetics