CRIMINOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORGANIZED CRIME: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE INDICATORS

. In the article, within the criminological characteristics, an in-depth analysis of the state, dynamics and structure of organized crime in Ukraine is conducted. Official statistical information of the Prosecutor General`s Office of Ukraine on criminal offenses within organized groups and criminal organizations has been kept since 2016, so the quantitative characteristics was carried out for 2016-2019. In particular, the quantitative analysis was conducted in the following areas: state of organized crime over the mentioned years and its comparative characteristics. Also, it is conducted an analysis of criminal offenses, which are committed the most frequently by organized groups and criminal organizations. The peculiarities of criminal liability, which is provided for the special form of complicity in the Criminal Code of Ukraine, are considered: organized groups and criminal organizations that form organized crime. The conducted analysis of organized crime made it possible to identify the problems of the state of organized crime, which will allow effective implementation of countermeasures in the practical activity of special subjects of counteraction. Methodology. In the course of the research, philosophical and dialectical laws and categories, as well as logical principles and techniques were used, which are necessary and sufficient to achieve the goal and to find a new subject of study of the specified topic. In addition to general methods, special criminological methods, namely