Organised crime always favours stable jurisdictions with weak institutions and corrupt environments that provide relatively safe opportunities to base and conduct criminal activity, increasingly penetrating and influencing politics, economies and social life, expanding criminal markets and introducing new criminal technologies. However, due to its high adaptive capacity, organised crime effectively leverages chaos and social upheaval…
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Wartime Crisis Mode: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on the System of Social Control in Ukraine (Crime, Institutes, and Trust in Criminal Justice)
The 21st century is the time of polycrisis, characterised by its temporal and spatial boundaries and cascading effects (Covid-19 pandemics, climate change, the war in Ukraine, mass migration caused by the war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts). Moreover, European societies are almost universally in crisis mode, which is linked to an accelerating process of…
Jeremy Wilson, Erin Dalton, Charles Scheer and Clifford Grammich: Improving Police Recruitment and Retention
Local police agencies face a threefold challenge in recruitment and retention: attrition resulting from budget crises and retirements, greater skill requirements and shifting generational preferences restricting the flow of applicants, and an expanding scope of duties requiring more officers with a greater breadth of skills. Although it has several gaps, existing research can help local…
Yanina Hrabova: Criminal Offenses Related to the Misuse Of Humanitarian Aid (Ukrainian Context)
Any crisis, particularly armed conflict, is inevitably accompanied by rising levels of poverty and increased societal demand for both material and financial humanitarian assistance. Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine became a hub for the operational activity of various humanitarian organizations – both international and domestic. The unprecedented volume of aid flowing into the…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Maryna Demura: The State of Compliance with Fundamental Human Rights Guarantees in Criminal Proceedings Under Martial Law
Access to a lawyer is an important guarantee of the right to a fair trial, the right to defence, the presumption of innocence and other fundamental rights. In Ukraine, representation in courts and public authorities is carried out exclusively by lawyers (advocates)[1]. Article 213 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (CPC) obliges the official who carried out…
Dmytro Yagunov, Maryna Demura: Domestic Violence in Ukraine. Policing and the Impact of the War
Recently, domestic violence has become an object of special attention by the Parliament, the Government, and the society in general. Therefore, domestic violence could be an attractive object for criminological research in the context of the impact of the War on the society. In 2017, the Criminal Code was supplemented by Article 126-1 according to…
Dmytro Yagunov: Crime Rates in Ukraine and the Impact of the War
In 2022, the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies (hereafter – LEA) registered 362636 crimes with corresponding criminal proceedings where the above-mentioned numbers reflect both criminal proceedings with concrete suspects and so-called “factual” criminal proceedings (without concrete suspects). It should be noted that the number of registered crimes even for the period of ten months of 2022…
Albert Yezerov: The Impact of War on Human Rights: Restrictions and Derogations
krainian statehood has existed and transformed for more than ten years in conditions of the Russian armed aggression. Although Ukraine’s institutional system has been constantly tested by political crises and corruption, and traditions of constitutionalism were not well established before the War, the State is a developing constitutional democracy. The political and legal reality that…