There are many criminal specialties. There are officially about 30 specialties of thieves alone, although in practice, of course, there are more of them. Such a variety of criminal specializations is determined by the laws of the development of society and reflects its specific historical realities. An industrial society, unlike an agrarian one, is characterized…
The improvement of economic, political, social, ideological, spiritual and other relations that take place in the process of building a legal state is the factor that undermines the roots of organized crime. In the fight against this phenomenon, general social measures to improve law enforcement activities are of primary importance, which requires: 1). To complete…
A group of engineers from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University has developed the Pyrorank algorithm, which should change the practice of information search and cope with the “curse of the information bubble.” As you know, over the past decades, search results have become a marketing tool. Software giants like Google…
Squatters occupied a building in the southern part of the capital of the Netherlands, which until recently housed the commercial office of the Russian Federation. And this is not just any building, because for years it was supposed to be a cover for Russian spies. “Inside the building, everything breathes espionage,” wrote the Algemeen Dagblad daily. The…
The main goal of criminal organizations is to obtain excess profits, which should somehow be legalized (laundered). Otherwise, the meaning of their activity disappears. The definition of money laundering was proposed by the Special Financial Action Task Force (GAFI) at the UN Congress in Havana in 1990. It boils down to: — changes or transfers…
The term “transnational” is usually used to denote the flow of information, money, people, and material resources across state borders. Criminal organizations also engage in operations that require the crossing of national borders. It is not for nothing that smuggling is often called the second oldest profession in the world. Thus, high profits from illegal…
“How much should you weigh in grams?” – or a brief history of fraud from antiquity to the present day Even the most eminent historian will not tell how old trading scales are. The first samples found by archaeologists in Mesopotamia date back to the fifth millennium BC. The mighty Hittites, a people repeatedly mentioned…
With regard to science, its contribution to the development of this problem cannot be considered satisfactory, although positive developments have appeared recently. In textbooks and monographs on criminology, the authors resorted only to such formulations as “elements of organized crime”, “especially dangerous manifestations of group crime”, “leadership in a criminal environment”, “organization of criminal groups”,…
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