Krasnosel'skikh I.M. Administrative law as a way to influence crime prevention

Abstract: The research subject is the range of administrative measures aimed at crimes prevention. The topicality of this issue is conditioned by the necessity to form a scientifically grounded system of preventing criminalization of the society. The current crisis of crime prevention system is caused by the shortcomings of the existing legal framework and the deterioration of functioning of its particular elements, including such an important element as the system of crime prevention in every possible way. The problems of prevention of crimes, which are socially dangerous and directly connected with penal and administrative policy of Russia, and their solution should be aimed at search for the optimal interaction of penal and administrative measures of prevention of crimes and administrative offences. The author applies general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, induction and deduction), and specific scientific methods (system analysis of criminal and administrative legislation, structural and formal-legal research methods). The scientific novelty of the research consists in the author’s classification of the system of administrative measures of crime prevention. The author concludes that administrative law has a wide range of measures of crime prevention. These measures can be provisionally divided into three groups: “pre-criminal” measures, including the measures of administrative prevention of crime; measures of administrative liability, aimed at preventing primary administrative offences; the third group of measures is applied on the “post-criminal” stage, and is composed of the system of administrative supervision over persons, who had been released from detention facilities, in order to prevent them from return to crime. 

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