Criminal Intelligence Activity and Criminology: A New Empirical Field for Crime Research

Grigoriy Alexandrovich Maystrenko, Aleksey Dmitrievich Denisov

2021

Abstract

The need for widespread use of criminological knowledge in the development of the theory and practice of criminal intelligence activity was noted in the first fundamental works by the founders of the modern theory of criminal intelligence activity in the 70s of the last century. Along with this, the specificity of the use of criminal intelligence tools and methods were noted in in-depth knowledge of crime, its causes and conditions, and the characteristics of the criminal’s personality. At the same time, the beginning of the development of such an important form of criminal intelligence activity as criminal intelligence crime prevention was made. An attempt to justify the objective need for criminological intelligence researches as an interdisciplinary area of studies on general crime has already been made earlier. The initial provisions of intelligence criminology were used in a number of dissertations to substantiate the theoretical and applied problems of criminal intelligence prevention of common crimes in general and certain types of crimes in relation to the sphere of activity of the internal affairs bodies. Currently, intelligence criminology is recognized by both representatives of the theory of criminal intelligence activity and by criminologists. The aim of the work is to study the possibilities of criminal intelligence activities as a potential empirical field for conducting a criminological research, and the tasks are to clarify such opportunities using the example of certain types of criminal intelligence measures, in the form of which, in fact, all this activity takes place. The methodological basis of the work was both general scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization, modelling, experiment, etc.) and specific scientific (observation, survey, questionnaire survey, content analysis, etc.) methods of scientific research. Based on the results of previously conducted and modern scientific developments, the article substantiates the objective necessity and possibility of implementing a new direction in the study of crime at the junction of criminology and the theory of criminal intelligence activity, a theoretical model of using, on the one hand, criminological knowledge in the theory and practice of criminal intelligence activity, and on the other hand, its means and methods in the criminological research of crime is proposed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Maystrenko G. and Denisov A. (2021). Criminal Intelligence Activity and Criminology: A New Empirical Field for Crime Research. In Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA, ISBN 978-989-758-532-6, pages 75-80. DOI: 10.5220/0010629100003152

in Bibtex Style

@conference{closa21,
author={Grigoriy Alexandrovich Maystrenko and Aleksey Dmitrievich Denisov},
title={Criminal Intelligence Activity and Criminology: A New Empirical Field for Crime Research},
booktitle={Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,},
year={2021},
pages={75-80},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010629100003152},
isbn={978-989-758-532-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the VII International Scientific-Practical Conference “Criminal Law and Operative Search Activities: Problems of Legislation, Science and Practice” - Volume 1: CLOSA,
TI - Criminal Intelligence Activity and Criminology: A New Empirical Field for Crime Research
SN - 978-989-758-532-6
AU - Maystrenko G.
AU - Denisov A.
PY - 2021
SP - 75
EP - 80
DO - 10.5220/0010629100003152