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The textbook is prepared in accordance with the standards of the Higher Law School in order to provide scientifically sound ideas about the current state of crime in Ukraine and the world, the negative phenomena and processes that cause it, the criminological features of the personality of the offender and the victim, as well as the theory of crime prevention.

The main theoretical and practical issues of the General and Special Parts of Criminology are covered on the basis of modern characteristics of crime in Ukraine, experience in preventing and combating it in the context of modern reform and development of the state legal system.

The General part of the proposed textbook reveals the basic concepts and categories of criminology, its subject, tasks and methodology. The modern views of criminologists on the problem of forming the personality of a criminal, determining the causes and conditions of crime, individual criminal behaviour, planning and organising preventive activities are analysed. The Special Part provides criminological characteristics of certain types of crime and measures of their prevention.

The textbook is intended for students of higher educational institutions, postgraduate students, doctoral students, teachers, scientists, practitioners of law enforcement agencies and special services.