DOI: 10.7256/2454-0633.2020.4.34430

Abstract: The subject of this research is the content and methodology of the relevant and informative public international anti-terrorism reports – the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) and the European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (TESAT) for 2020. The goal of this article consists in examination of applicability of analogous methodologies of socio-legal scientific research dedicated to the phenomenon of terrorism in the national strategic anti-terrorist law enforcement and law protection activities. The research task is to give a general overview to GTI and TESAT anti-terrorism reports for 2020, explore their structure and content, analyze the statistical data on international terrorism and terrorism in the EU member-states for 2019. The object of this article is the strategic data on the criminalized phenomenon of terrorism from the perspective of international law. The scientific information analysis of statistical data on terrorism allows differentiating terrorism by the subjective aspect of this act, view it in space and time for developing a deeper understanding on the factors and conditions of its proliferation, determine the strategies on counteraction. The conclusion is formulated that in the international scientific research terrorism is viewed as a sociological phenomenon, and rather than cumulative unlawful acts alone; the international community converge the approaches towards understanding and criminalization of terrorism (coordinate the lists of terrorist organizations and suspected individuals). The novelty of this work consists in the description of modern scientific methods of information analysis of the data on terrorism in the European Union and worldwide – trends, indicators, geoinformation representation and data analysis, as well as other relevant methods of statistical data analysis. The author’s special contribution is the comparison of methodological approaches of the two anti-terrorism research, as well as in publication of relevant information from foreign sources

DOI: 10.25136/2409-7810.2018.1.2326

Abstract: In this article, within the framework of the model of network law enforcement activity, the author's systematic approach to assessing the effectiveness of the domestic law enforcement system is described: judicial, prosecutorial, human rights and law enforcement activities. The aim of the work is to establish organizational and legal contradictions between the actual model for assessing the activities of law enforcement bodies on the basis of quantitative indicators and demonstrated qualitative socially significant results of such activities. The objectives of the work are to determine the contribution of law enforcement agencies and other law enforcement agencies to assessing the effectiveness of all law enforcement activities on the basis of their inherent place and role in the structure of such activities; to describe typical features of the modern model of law enforcement assessment; to search for ways to optimize the effectiveness of law enforcement; to model the author's system of evaluating the final socially significant results of the activity of law enforcement bodies and other subjects of the law enforcement system from the perspective of the hypothesis about the network character of modern social relations. The article is based on the analysis of the legal provisions, theory of social management, cybernetics, and information analysis. In his research Tagirov has applied general and special legal research methods that ensure the principles of historicism, integrity of regulatory and procedural institutional analysis of final socially significant results of law enforcement activity. The author has also applied the methods of abstraction, dialectical materialism, economic determinism, legal interpretation, analysis and synthesis, structural logical method, cause-and-effect relationships, and modelling; the principles of development the research subject and its logical and structural certainty, dialectical connection between historical and logical research styles, consistency and systematicity of the research; general scientific approaches to the subject under research including operational approach, personality - activity approach, collective activity approach, axiological, historial, conflictological approaches, the norm and anomaly approach, communicative and other research methods and concepts used in modern social studies and humanities. The novelty of the research is caused by the fact that the author of the article makes a hypothesis about about the network structure of the society. The rationale of the research is determined by the orientation at building a digital economic system offered by the President of Russia, in particular, that as an essential element of keeping up with other major countries in the global world. For this purpose, the author of the article offers his own model of network law enforcement activity that does not contradict to the digital economy model but serves as an essential part and law enforcement sphere of the state management typical for social relations of the future. As a result of his research, the author of the article concludes that law enforcement activity of a state as a social and economic model has the nature of the compromise between targets of the social system, law enforcement mechanisms, and associated expenses. As any other cybernetic system, efficiency of law enforcement activity can be regulated by the methods of optimality modelling; elements of the cybernetic law enforcment system and their efficiency are interrelated and interdependent, thus, it is impossible to assess efficiency of a law enforcement actor disregarding mutually coordinated activity assessment; and shift to mutually coordinated law enforcement activity through establishment of interdepartmental and interlayer (network) cooperation is a natural and inevitable consequence of the social environment development. The article presents the results of the research fully and precisely giving preference to new research results and long-term data. Some critical remarks made by the author contradict to currently used methods of assessement of law enforcement activity and thus play an important practical role for integral, full and independent research of true efficiency of the law enforcement system. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0668.2017.5.23377

Abstract: Terrorist threat in Europe according to the Europol estimate will increase by 2017. Therefore, based on experience of the European Union member-state, the object of this research is the problematic questions of organization of the activities of police and special services in countering terrorism.  The subject is the certain directions in improving the counterterrorism in the Russian Federation. The goal of the work lies in establishment of the significant regularities of modern law enforcement activity in the European Union in the field of countering terrorism that can affect the improvement of similar activities in the Russian Federation. The study applies the general scientific and special-legal methods of cognition, which ensure objectivity, historicism and comparativism of examining the law enforcement activity in the European Union member-states pertinent to the suppression of terrorist. The following principles are included: development of the subject of research, its logical certainty, historical concreteness, and the dialectical connection between the logical and historical  ways of cognition, the systemic and comprehensive nature of research; General scientific approaches: systemic, genetic, activity; Methods of analysis and synthesis, cultural and historical analysis, methods of comparative study, legal interpretation, and other research tools of the modern humanitaristics. The scientific novelty is defined by the fact that the European experience of legal and organizational regulation of the activities of police and special services in the field of countering terrorism has been poorly studied in our country. The majority of scientific works in this area focus attention on the political or sociological aspects of domestic and foreign policy of the European Union in ensuring the “unified European security space".

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7810.0.0.23129

Abstract: In this article, based on the subjective analysis of a part of the law enforcement system (the established subsystem of joint activities of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Service for the Protection of Human Rights in Russia), in the framework of the model of network law enforcement activity previously identified by the author, the practical mechanisms for implementing this model are verbally described in connection with the organization of an operational response to deviations in a criminal situation in a certain area by law enforcement forces. The practical mechanisms described in the article lay the foundations for improving the operational management of a complex dynamic criminal system in real time. The article is written on the basis of the provisions of the general theory of social management, cybernetics, information analysis. Methods of abstraction, dialectical materialism, economic determinism, interpretation, analysis and synthesis, structural-logical, spatio-temporal dependencies, cause-effect relationships, modeling, psychological analysis; Approaches to the subject under study: operational, personal-activity and collective-activity, competence, axiological, historical, conflictological, norms and anomalies, communicative, geoinformation, playful, ideological. The novelty of the work is predetermined by the hypothesis adopted on the basis of the network structure of society. From the standpoint of the theory of social management, the operational level of law enforcement management with reference to the domestic police and some cooperating law enforcement agencies, interested (based on the common purpose, territory, facilities, methods of joint activity) in achieving a concerted effort of the overall result - an acceptable level of operational Situation. Proceeding from this object, the model of interaction at the level of operational management of modern bodies and divisions of the Russian police with Rosgvardia units, which perform traditionally "policing" functions (protection of law and order and public security, combating crime) is considered as a research task. The result of the work was a further deepening of the general provisions on the theory of network law enforcement activity, developed and previously published by the author, with the identification of a corresponding verbal model of law enforcement activity. The scope of the results of this study is determined by the breadth of social and law enforcement practice, the principles and provisions described are universal in nature and can be applied by analogy (scaled) in different areas and levels in orderly harmonized law enforcement activities. The conclusions of the study confirm the admissibility of the choice of the hypothesis, demonstrating the contradictoriness of the social modern law-enforcement practice from the point of view of public expectations and the really manifested result embodied in the modern model of the organization of law enforcement activity.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.3.22228

Abstract: The article considers the problem aspects of administrative regulation of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers of the Russian Federation in course of law enforcement service. The research object is the professional safety of internal affairs officers as an objective condition (characteristic) of the system of service in the internal affairs bodies, and the system of measures aimed at the reduction of professional risks and threats. The research subject is the set of legal provisions regulating the procedure of service in the internal affairs bodies with regard to personal professional safety of employees. These provisions are within the scope of constitutional, administrative, labor, and so-called “police” law. The purpose of the study is to detect juridical inconsistencies of the normative sphere of regulation of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers. The research tasks are to describe the genesis of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers, to study the structure of an administrative provision about personal professional safety of internal affairs officers, to formulate particular recommendations about the improvement of legal regulation of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers. The author uses general scientific and specific juridical research methods guaranteeing the historicism, objectivity and consistency of normative-legal study of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers. They include the principles of development of the research object, its logical determinacy, historical specificity and dialectical connection between the logical and historical methods of cognition; consistency and comprehensiveness of study; general scientific approaches: the system, genetic, activity approach; the methods of analysis and synthesis, juridical interpretation and other research methods of the modern socio-humanistic studies. The article is based on the current Russian sources of law via use of departmental statistics. Special attention is given to the detection of gaps in the departmental legal provisions in the sphere of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers, which don’t regulate the constitutional right of internal affairs officers to safe working conditions. The author substantiates the conclusion that professional risks of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers must be normatively regulated. The research results are described accurately and meaningfully. The author gives factual information and instances in the examples of legal practice describing particular interrelations of legal provisions and the patterns of the mechanism of legal regulation of personal professional safety of internal affairs officers. The author prefers using the latest research results and long-term data. Author’s critical conclusions contradict the existing legal provisions and are of a particular practical importance for the comprehensive provision of internal affairs officers’ safety, reduction of rate of accidents and deaths of officers in the course of duty, and general stabilization of the personnel system of the Internal Affairs Bodies. 

DOI: 10.7256/2409-7543.2017.2.22708

Abstract: The research object is the states’ activities aimed at registration of the population; the research subject is the practical mechanisms of granting unique digital personal identifiers. The paper describes the theory of universal two-factor genom-dactyloscopic identification. Within this method, each person is granted a unique digital identifier. This model serves as a basis for a practical method of international registration of population based on a calculated ID. The authors consider international legal principles of personal names, and give attention to the national, regional and religious peculiarities of naming, define the problem of unification of personal names in the context of globalization and the open borders policy. The authors use the comparative-legal, problem and activity methods, analysis, abstraction, modeling, and algorithmization of processes. The problem of personal identification, in the authors’ opinion, should be solved by introducing digital personal names into the international practice – his/her individual digital and calculated identifiers. The authors develop and reason a new model of digital personal identification, formulate the authors’ hypothesis (a verbal model) and an information technology (algorithm) of granting personal identifiers, and describe some practical areas of personal IDs application. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0617.2017.2.23312

Abstract: This article analyzes the extremist and terrorist acts as a singular social phenomenon - the most dangerous and destructive kind of mass violence observed in Western Europe and the globalized world. The object of this article are the social relations based on religious values and regional economic interests of various social and political groups in their interaction with extremist and terrorist manifestations. The subject of this article is the Western European conflictological approach to the counteraction of social conflict that leads to extremist and terrorist acts. The author examines the overall determination of such manifestations in the light conflictological approach and specific examples considers the experience of the countries of the European Union on the harmonization of (mediation) of public life in order to minimize this social conflict. The article presents the author's conclusions, as well as a number of proposals that could be used in a social, political and legal practice in Russian Federation, and developed by Russia within Eurasian integrative international organizations. In particular, the author concludes that the determinants of modern international terrorism are global in their nature, stresses the key role of political interference with national interests of the pro-Islamic countries, which gives rise to conflicts of interests and provokes global cooperation Islamist extremist forces. The author also substantiates the proposal for the unification of social values with a view to the harmonization of social life, without which countering extremism and terrorism is impossible.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2016.6.16755

Abstract: The research object is the law-enforcement activities of the bodies of the European Union. The research subject is the normative framework and the related organization and management mechanisms of crimes prevention, developed in the law-enforcement bodies of the EU, and the cooperation ties of these bodies. The purpose of the study is to establish the significant patterns of the contemporary police activities in the European Union, which have an impact or can possibly have an impact on cooperation with the Russian Federation and on Russia’s national security protection. The author applies general scientific methods of cognition and special methods of jurisprudence, ensuring the objectivity, historicism and comparativism of the study of the activities of the European police aimed at the prevention of terrorist acts and grave crimes. These methods include the principles of: the research subject development, its logical consistence, historical specificity and dialectical coherence between the logical and the historical methods of cognition; general scientific methods: system, genetic, activity; the methods of analysis and synthesis, cultural and historical analysis, the methods of comparative study, juridical interpretation and other research means of the modern social sciences. The European experience of legal and organizational regulation of activities of law-enforcement bodies in the sphere of terrorist crimes prevention hasn’t been studied thoroughly enough in Russia so far; most scientific works in this sphere focus on the political aspects of internal and foreign policy of the EU in the sphere of a “common European security space” creation. The study is based on two existing European sources of law. Special attention is given to the comparison of organizational mechanisms of registering and using the registers of terrorist organizations and terror suspects. The author substantiates the conclusion that the European law-enforcement experience of prevention of terrorism and grave crimes is highly integrated with the U.S. experience in the legal and organization spheres.