Prevention of crimes against the environment: the experience of Ukraine

• Viktoria Babanina National Academy of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4173-488X
• Oleksandr Mykytchyk National Academy of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4973-2670
• Olena Matiushenko National Academy of Internal Affairs https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8216-5316
• Viktoria Ladniuk Financial and Banking Law of the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7411-8242

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46398/cuestpol.3970.37

Keywords: ecological crime, crimes against the environment, ecological safety, environmental protection, experience of Ukraine

Abstract

General social measures for the prevention of crimes against the environment, which include general processes of economic development, science, technology, which create the possibility and increase the effectiveness of special criminological measures and, in contrast, do not directly affect but indirectly the criminogenic environment, eliminating or neutralizing the common, most significant and common causes of behavior criminal in the field of ecology. The article analyzes Ukraine’s experience in the field of preventing crimes against the environment. It also analyzes the measures taken in the country aimed at the prevention of environmental crimes. A documentary methodology close to content analysis was used. It is concluded that liability for environmental crimes is an important component of the legal provision of environmental management, the restoration of ecological objects and the protection of the environment. Legislation on criminal liability for violation of the right to use a natural object was developed within the framework of the general legal rules on liability for violation of environmental legislation.

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