PECULIARITIES OF THE CRIMINOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CRIME WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF ARMED AGGRESSION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AGAINST UKRAINE

Abstract

The article provides criminological analysis of crime in Ukraine during
2014-2024 based on certain types of criminal offences committed within the
context of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. It
identifies challenges faced by domestic judicial and law enforcement systems due
to complexity of legal evaluation of aggression and their impact on law
enforcement practice. The work ascertains the lack of unified approach to legal
evaluation of criminal offences committed within the context of armed aggression
of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, analyses changes in the approach to
their qualification and incremental rapprochement of the domestic law
enforcement practice to legal practice of international and foreign judicial
authorities. The article proposes implementing new criteria for recording of
criminal offences in order to enhance criminological analysis of crime and
elaborate efficient system of crime counteraction in conditions of hybrid war.