Аннотации:
The article covers issues of criminology associated with scientific framework of categories and concepts development. Traditional definitions of «crime prevention», «crime control», «crime counteraction» and «crime fighting» are discussed. The authors set a new approach to this issue. Crime counteraction is considered as an action plan to provide security of interests of citizens, society and the state and involves development and implementation of purposive measures aimed against appearing of crime reasons and favor conditions, and also aimed at crime detect and control by its prevention. Crime counteraction's purpose is considered as a higher level of person, society and country's security as a whole, and a steady lower level of criminality (control), mitigation of criminal activity. The article presents ways of achieving crime counteraction aims: offensive and preventive activity, aimed at discovering and consecutive liquidation of reasons of illegal activities; crime fighting aimed at discovering, preventing, suppressing, investigating of crimes.