PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION CRIMES IN ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC OPINION (APPLIED RESEARCH)

The article is devoted to the problems of preventing corruption crimes, which have criminally‑legal and criminological nature. Among them, the author, in particular, refers to the uncertainty of concepts, methodological errors, and the illegibility of the law. The issue of the concept of a corruption crime has not been fully resolved; it has a direct impact on prevention of the corruption crimes. The article raises the problem of identifying the criteria for classifying crimes as corruption, corruption transaction is specified as a key feature of the act. The author conducted an applied research using the survey method in the form of a survey of Russian citizens (totally 300 respondents). The respondents pointed out the causes of corruption crimes, assessed the level of corruption, and the implemented anti‑corruption measures. Respondents differently assessed the role of subjects of corruption relations; the behavior of the corrupt is condemned to a greater extent; the corrupter and facilitator more often gets justificatory attitude. The author comes, in particular, to the conclusions about the undeveloped concept of anti‑corruption policy, the lack of systematic counteraction to corruption crimes. Since anti‑corruption at the regional and municipal levels is an integral part of anti‑corruption policy, the author comes to the conclusion about the ability of regional and municipal policy to take into account the peculiarities of the state of the society, the causes of corruption in different areas and the possibility of effective combating corruption crimes. There is a recommendation to the entities of the Russian Federation to specialize anti‑corruption measures depending on the corruption dangerous spheres of public administration. The results of the conducted applied research revealed the low effectiveness of anti‑corruption measures. There are suggestions about the reasons for the tolerant attitude of citizens to corruption, the low readiness of Russians to report the facts of corruption that have become known to them. The author points out the special importance of involving civil society institutions in the fight against corruption in order to educate legal and civil consciousness, to acquire skills of anti‑corruption behavior.

corruption, fighting corruption, corruption crimes, crimes of corruption, subjects of corruption deal, corruptor, corrupt, determination, prevention effectiveness, anti‑corruption measures.

Kulakova M. N. Prevention of corruption crimes in assessment of the public opinion (applied research) // Business. Education. Law. 2018. No. 4 (45). Pp. 354–359. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2018.45.436.