Ivanenko I. Gangsterism: criminological and criminal - legal research

The thesis is dedicated to theoretical, practical and applied problems of scientific research, legislative regulation, application of normative base and legal relations in establishment and realization of the criminal responsibility for the organization of the armed gang, participation in it, participation in a gang attack (for gangsterism) by law-enforcement and judicial bodies and also to the questions of improvement of ways, methods, actions concerning preventive measures, prevention, termination of the gangsterism and struggle against it in Ukraine. In this work, it was carried out a detailed research of criminal - legal concept of gangsterism, structural elements of this crime, criminological contents of the concepts of criminal organization, gang, participation in a gang, armament of a gang and others. Present criminological criminality condition connected to gangsterism in Ukraine has been analyzed in this work in detail as well.