Forensic Characterization of Economic Crimes Committed by Organized Groups with Corruption Relations
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32353/khrife.2.2024.04Keywords:
forensic signs; economic crimes; forensic characterization; organized groups; corruption relations.Abstract
The trends in development of doctrine of forensic characterization of crimes, debatable issues regarding its concept, quantitative and qualitative composition are considered. It was established that forensic characterization of crimes is a theoretical category of criminalistics, system of data on the most general specifics of type of crimes, typical circumstances, methods and mechanisms of their commission, and other circumstances that are important for the investigation. The main purpose of forensic characterization of crimes is to implement its data in investigation methods. Globalization processes, scientific and technological progress con-tribute to quantitative and qualitative changes in criminal activity. Legal statistics of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, results of our research indicate that crimes in the field of property relations, financial and economic and service activities in the process of production, distribution, exchange and consumption of material goods and services at enterprises, institutions, organizations of priority areas of economy, implementation of official powers in the field of managerial, financial, tax, and customs control is most often committed by organized groups with corruption ties. In this regard, the purpose of the research is to determine forensic specifics of economic crimes committed in the priority areas of economy, to develop a conceptual apparatus of such crimes, to characterize economic crimes committed by organized groups with corruption ties, to distinguish their components. In order to achieve the goal, scientific methods of cognition are applied: observation, analysis, analogy, deduction, synthesis, descriptive-analytical, modeling, etc. A new approach to defining the concept of economic crimes is proposed. Economic crimes committed by organized groups with corruption ties are characterized, and their components are singled out for use in the investigation methods of this type of crime.
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