Forms and methods of police activities on individual prevention in the current socio-economic conditions

Close attention has always been paid to the forms and methods of preventive law enforcement. This is indicated by characteristics of the legal regulation of the Soviet era of existence of the State, as well as by the current legal regulations. However, the theoretical constructs regarding the inner content of these categories have not changed their ideological platform, justifying the natural process of the withering away of crimes. The analysis of the legal regulation of preventive activities of the police in the current socioeconomic conditions suggests adopting the understanding of a crime as an inevitable phenomenon in any society. Therefore, it suggests, accordingly, that crimes are deterred within socially acceptable limits. This gap between the theoretical constructs and the ideological views on crimes leads to the uncovering of the essential characteristics of the forms and methods of the police as the main subject of preventive influence on the modern stage. The widely replicated legal literature of today has no comprehensive analysis of the forms and methods of individual prevention in the current legal framework. This leads to a formal approach in its implementation, and, as a result, to the low efficiency of the measures in practice. In this study, forms denote forms of preventive measures; methods are sets of techniques and acts used in preventive activities. The most effective forms of impact in modern socio-economic conditions are a survey of citizens, personal observation by a police officer, intelligence activities on the territory, warning citizens through the mass media and individual booklets on the most common offenses in the area. According to some scientists, such forms of individual preventive work as involvement of citizens in socially useful labor and sports and public patronage of the persons likely to commit offenses can also be used in the current situation. The author's research has shown that prevention methods have retained their external form: persuasion, exercise, encouragement, assistance, coercion. But their inner content has changed in the direction of humanization and liberalization of the impact on persons wanting preventive measures. Coercive measures widely used previously have now been replaced by verbal methods of correction of potential offenders' behavior. The study of the preventive work of foreign colleagues has shown that in this type of law enforcement authorities are widely supported by community councils, associations and other territorial unions of citizens. Summing up the arguments presented above, the author supports the views of scholars and practitioners who assume that forms and methods of prevention activities cannot be universal for all regions of the Russian Federation. They should take into account the national, economic, religious and other peculiarities of the Russian Federation, cities and districts.

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