CURRENT CRIMINOLOGICAL SITUATION IN THE NORTH-CAUCASUS FEDERAL DISTRICT

Abstract

The article considers the current state of the crimino-logical situation in the North-Caucasus Federal district. The urgency of this problem lies in the fact that despite the obvious positive developments in this direction and the general trends towards stabilization of the situation in the region, the operational situation here continues to be one of the most difficult in the Russian Federation. In addition, there are currently reasons to believe that in the near future, reverse processes in the form of a worsening of the criminal situation in the south of Russia are not excluded. The special signiicance of this topic is that destructive forces with geopolitical ambitions to change the world order are harboring ideas of alienating part of the territories of the Russian Federation and even the collapse of the country. At the same time, the starting point in the implementation of these intentions is the destabilization of the criminal situation in the subjects of the North-Caucasus Federal district. This article discusses the speciics of the main characteristics of crime in the region, their distinctive features from other territorial entities of Russia. At the same time, the main emphasis is placed on the structural features of the state of crime and its causal complex. Priority risks that could complicate the situation in the North-Caucasus are identiied. This involves a retrospective analogy with past events in the region, and also takes into account negative experience of other countries undergoing expansion of international extremist organizations. In this case, it is noted that these examples have a number of similar features in terms of the risk of occurrence of odious phenomena and criminal processes in the North-Caucasus Federal district. In the course of the study, the analysis of information about the state of the criminological situation in the region is based on statistical data of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation on the state of crime.