Specialized subjects of criminal offence prevention in the field of official activities and professional activities related to provision of public services

The article presents scientific views of criminology scientists on the system of subjects of criminal offence prevention, defines the system of subjects of criminal offence prevention in the field of official activities and professional activities related to provision of public services, and gives its main characteristics, analysis of the content of activities and functional powers of subjects of prevention vested with special powers in the field studied.The system of specialized subjects of criminal offense prevention in the field of official activities and professional activities related to provision of public services is regarded as a set of legal entities and individuals, state and public institutions united by a common goal and scope of tasks aimed at preventing socially dangerous acts, ensuring implementation of the state policy, organization and coordination of preventive activities, performance of functions regarding prevention, direct detection and cession of encroachments, restoration of the rights of victims, as well as elimination of criminogenic phenomena and processes in a certain area of public relations.The analysis of the legislative and regulatory acts regulating activities of relevant public institutions at the special preventive criminology level has resulted in the classification of subjects of preventive activity, outlining the normative and legal basis of activity, giving characteristics of the functional component and the scope of tasks of such subjects.Attention is focused on the fact that despite existing legislative acts and bylaws defining the crime reduction strategy and the anti-corruption strategy, corruption-related crimes still remain at quite high level.Based on the results of the study, the authors come to the general theoretical conclusion about the urgency of developing and adopting a comprehensive legislative act that will determine the grounds, principles, tasks of preventive activities, the system and legal status of subjects of such activities (their rights and obligations), guarantees for their activities, the peculiarities of preventive measures implementation (conditions, procedure, terms, etc.), the responsibility for violation of the requirements of this legislative act, which will create prerequisites for both reducing procedural violations and improving the performance of law enforcement institutions.