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International conference organized by "JurInfoR-MSU" Institute for Contemporary Education, “JurInfoR” center, the Criminalists and Criminologists’ Union (Moscow), and the U.S. Department of Justice, 20-21 May, 1997, Moscow

On combating new types of economic crimes in Russia and the United States

Modeling in Combating Organized Forms of Economic Crimes

Yuri Gennadievich Vasin

The crime-control policy doctrine featuring the supremacy of law inevitably requires (for optimum development) constant accounting for and use of effective interaction between law-making in the field of crime-control and crime - one of the most complex socio-legal phenomenon.

Russia’s development, characterized by contradictions between and dynamic mutual influence of phenomena, calls for using modern research tools to adopt a comprehensive approach to scientific exploration of emerging problems, such as the need to combat organized forms of economic crimes.

One of such tools is a set of methods employed to forecast law-making efforts in the field of combating organized crime, including economic crimes, of which one element is inevitably the use of corrupt connections, not only in Russia, but also in other countries, to commit transcontinental crimes, and this makes those crimes even more dangerous to society.

Undoubtedly, it is necessary to take a close look at the law-making experience of countries where the problem began to be explored a long time ago, for example, the United States. But Russia’s unique law-making experience requires a science-based approach to exploring trends and the constantly changing situation using modeling - one of the most advanced methods. Two major directions should be identified:

1. Logical forecast theoretical models to fill gaps in legislation can be designed on the basis of the general research method of going up from the abstract to the specific; this may help fill the gaps in Russian legislation addressing, specifically, the topical problem of money-laundering; the need to take a first step in handling the problem, by requiring that all public servants declare their incomes and expenditures, has been repeatedly highlighted by Professor S.V. Maksimov of the Moscow Institute of the Interior Ministry.

2. It is possible to account for the mutual influence of actual developments as related to the functioning of organized forms of economic crimes and law-making activities to combat those crimes using correlation analysis involving computer-assisted extrapolation and probability modeling.

Only a law meeting real current requirements combined with an advanced law-enforcement functional structure will curb the rapid growth of economic crimes in Russia.

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