Социально-экономические детерминанты профессиональной преступности в России в современных условиях развития общества и государства

Abstract

This article discusses some issues of determining professional crime in modern Russia. It has been established that, due to the special selfish orientation of this type of criminal activity, the determinants of the growth of criminal professionalism existing in the socio-economic sphere play a significant role. The purpose of this study is to identify the key socio-economic determinants of professional crime in the modern Russian state and analyze them. To achieve this goal, the research used methods of synthesis, analysis, generalization, systematization, as well as statistical, formal and legal methods. The study found that in the modern system of development of capitalist society in Russia with its active promotion of the cult of consumption and the establishment of high standards of human material life, the socio-economic determinants of the growth of criminal professionalism occupy an important place in the hierarchy of causes, factors and conditions for the growth of professional crime. The following determinants characteristic of this type of crime, found in the socio-economic sphere of modern Russian society, are identified: low material standard of living for individual groups of the population; polarization of the population by income level; high profitability of individual criminal trades, «covering» various costs and risks from committing crimes.