MAIN DIRECTIONS REGARDING THE PREVENTION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF ORGANIZED GROUPS AND CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

The authors it was established that in order to effectively combat organized crime, one of the international recommendations is as follows: when developing anti-crime policy strategies, including legislation and other measures, states should take into account the structural features of criminal organizations and their methods of operation. Organized criminal groups and criminal organizations are focused on the provision of illegal goods and services, as well as on penetration into legal activities using a wide variety of methods, including corruption and violence, there is a need to develop new strategies in the field of crime prevention, which, narrowing the capabilities of such organizations, will simultaneously increase the level of vulnerability of economic systems in relation to such penetration. These aspects of the prevention of organized crime, including those of a transnational nature, were reflected in the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. The dominant opinion among researchers is that there are a large number of characteristics of organized groups and criminal organizations, but most have a variable network structure, so they can be countered with a strategy focused on network analysis, as well as on the analysis of information resources used by criminal networks.