Zadorozhniy A. Prevention crime in the area official activities

The paper provides overview of theoretical and legal bases of counteraction official crime, defines features of criminal legal description of crime in the area official activities. Also it have been considered official crime as object of criminological characteristics and analyzed its significant features. It have been established the reasons and conditions of crime in the area official activities, found their interconnectedness and common criminal factors to other kinds of crime. Criminological portrait of a person who commits crime in the area official activities have been designed, also it was defined its core criminogenic properties and regularities of their formation.