The Counteractions Against Criminal Encroachments at Cultural Values
Abstract
Cultural policy is an important component in the task of strengthening the country, national identity and ensuring national security. Protection of cultural property from criminal encroachments is one of the most important law enforcement functions of the state. The article is devoted to the aspects of increasing the effectiveness of the main directions of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values. An analysis of the empirical base allowed to generalize the current situation, positive experience in the sphere of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values. The subject of the study is the patterns of organizational support of activities to counter criminal encroachments on cultural values. The aim of the study is to improve the activities of law enforcement agencies in countering criminal encroachments on cultural values. On the basis of studying the patterns of organizational support of activities to counter criminal encroachments on cultural values, the author has identified and analyzed the typical problems: legal, organizational, managerial, criminalistic and other typical problems, that arise in the process of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values. The resolution of the above mentioned problems of activities to counter criminal encroachments on cultural values is possible by optimizing it. Optimization of activities to counter criminal encroachments on cultural values as a complex controlled process consists of interrelated elements and is conditioned by a combination of external and internal factors. The author suppose that in order to optimize counteraction to criminal encroachments on cultural values, it is necessary to build on an innovative interdisciplinary approach and concentrate the efforts in order to resolve typical problems in the significant areas: optimization of the mechanism of legal regulation of counteraction to criminal encroachments on cultural values; information support of counteraction to criminal encroachments on cultural values; organization of international cooperation in the sphere of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values; optimization of interdepartmental interaction in the framework of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values; optimization of preventive activities in the context of countering criminal encroachments. The system which is formed in the article is devoted to identifying and taking measures to eliminate the most typical problems, as mistakes in organizing counteraction to criminal encroachments on cultural values, minimizing their consequences and ensuring efficiency activities. Author proposes a set of measures aimed at optimizing the main directions of countering criminal encroachments on cultural values.
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