THE GENESIS OF CORRUPTION CRIME IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STATE CRIMINALIZATION

INTRODUCTION Such a negative social phenomenon as corruption is a sort of the disease of the society that has affected politics, state authorities, economics, as well as financial, social and cultural spheres. That is why it has a very negative effect on the democratic development of the state, which is a threat to its national security. It is not possible to fight against such “disease” without knowing its essence, the causes of its origin in detail and course of action to be taken. The search for a solution to the problems of combating organized crime and corruption exclusively by criminal means is a utopian idea. A relatively large number of law enforcement bodies have already been set up in Ukraine. Huge amounts of money are spent on maintaining newly created bodies. At the same time, their effectiveness in combating corruption remains very low. Law enforcement officers do not make the necessary efforts to detect transnational criminal organizations, but are engaged in combating small organized groups and subgroups instead. Besides, the Ukrainian lawenforcement bodies after being reformed have changed more in form than in essence and still have a lot of problems, in particular, the problems related to duplicating their functions and coordination of interagency. Organized corruption in Ukraine has an ancient background. It has gone a long way from being primitive to becoming perfect one. At each stage of development there was a transformation of its form and essence.