Суспільна небезпечність злочинності

Abstract

This article notes that the social danger of crime is expressed in damage to both material and moral to individual citizens and society as a whole. The opinion is substantiated that direct harm from crime should be divided into direct damage of a material nature and direct damage to a personal character. It is indicated that it is especially difficult to determine and calculate the consequences of criminal offenses committed against an individual. It is possible to calculate the costs of treatment and medications for a person who has become a victim of a criminal offense as direct material damage, but it is considered impossible to determine in monetary terms moral and psychological losses, an insult to honor and dignity, a change in the attitude of a person to the environment and himself after a committed criminal offense as direct personal injury. In addition, different people experience the consequences of criminal offenses differently. Especially moral and psychological stress grows when it comes to murders, harm to health, rape. So, for example, when studying the phenomenon of drug crime, it became obvious: it is extremely difficult to measure and evaluate in monetary terms all the consequences of the harm resulting from the spread of drug addiction in society, they are stretched out in time and become obvious only in the future, when it is impossible to correct the situation. Therefore, it is emphasized that it is advisable to include in the cost of crime also the costs of treatment and psychological rehabilitation of family members of a drug addict. Therefore, the position is substantiated that such approaches are relevant and urgent tasks of modern criminological science and the practice of law enforcement agencies.