On public danger of crimes committed by organized groups

Introduction. Crimes committed by organized groups have an increased degree of public danger. The qualification of such acts implies the need to properly define the mentioned category, to establish its qualitative characteristics, which requires appropriate research, including criminal law.
Materials and Methods. The research is based on general scientific and private scientific methods of scientific cognition. The methods of theoretical and empirical research are used. The analysis of court decisions in criminal cases on crimes committed as part of organized groups using the comparative legal method is also carried out.
Analysis. The article studies crimes committed by organized groups related to the consideration of issues of assessing the public danger of crimes committed by organized groups, which have not been sufficiently reflected in the scientific literature. According to the study of the regulatory framework, there is no definition of an organized group in criminal legislation. At the same time, the commission of a crime as part of an organized group has an increased degree of public danger, which is determined by a number of factors of a different nature, discussed in the article. This circumstance requires the development of new theoretical and applied approaches to combating such a phenomenon as organized crime, including those related to the increased public danger of this phenomenon.
Results. The conducted research allows the author to conclude that, despite the active use of the concept in question, the legislator does not in all cases take into account the increased public danger of committing a crime by an organized group. It is subject to correction by making appropriate changes to criminal legislation related to the inclusion in the list of qualifying circumstances of a number of norms establishing responsibility for individual crimes, such an aggravating circumstance as the commission of a crime by an organized group, recognizing it as a particularly aggravating circumstance with the establishment of appropriate sanctions.

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