DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.4.22298

Abstract: The article considers the preventive work of internal affairs bodies with football hooligans for the purpose of prevention of civil disorders. Prevention of offences is the system of measures of public authorities and their representatives, social organizations and other interested individuals, aimed at preventing processes, which foster delictness. Such measures oppose the image of potential offenders to the society and prevent new offences. In the nearest time, public order and security provision during the 2018 World Cup and will become the priority for many law enforcement agencies. The authors use various empirical and theoretical methods of scientific cognition, such as description, observation, measurement and comparison. The authors conclude that despite a large number of tasks facing the police, the main attention should be given to prevention of wrongful acts. In this context, with regard to the 2018 World Cup, Russian police should focus on public and secret field work with football hooligans to prevent civil disorders with their participation. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.4.22510

Abstract: The article analyzes the current situation in outfitting official premises of juvenile justice officers and formulates recommendations about the improvement of the current situation. The research object is social relations connected with the reasons of neglect and juvenile offences and the prevention of such negative phenomena. The research subject is the set of administrative rules regulating prevention of neglect, delicts and juvenile delinquencies, the activities of subjects responsible for preventive work with minors, and the measures of prevention of anti-social phenomena among minors. The author uses general scientific and specific, theoretical, applied and empirical approaches: general philosophical, general historical, structural-functional, institutional, socio-philosophical, psychological, logical-theoretical, statistical, system, Delphi, formal-legal, historical-legal, comparative-legal approaches, method of legal interpretation and interpretation of norms of law, etc. Despite the large number of scientific works devoted to the problems of prevention of juvenile delinquencies and the ways to solve them, the issues of outfitting official premises of juvenile justice officers haven’t been studies in recent years, therefore the source base of this problem is rather poor. The author proves the need to revive juvenile delinquents’ rooms, which firstly appeared during the Second World War, gives scientific recommendations about appropriate designing of such premises, their equipping and methods of work of juvenile police officers. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.4.23509

Abstract: The research subject is the legal status of individuals confidentially assisting law enforcement bodies (confidential informants). The decisions of the European Court have significant impact on the perfection of Russian legislative system and law enforcement practice, particularly on the use of information obtained from confidential informants. The content of article 17 of the Federal law “On operational investigations” doesn’t contain any specification of individuals confidentially assisting law enforcement bodies and doesn’t comment on the admissibility of evidence obtained with their help. The research methodology includes the method of comparative jurisprudence, which is used to study the legal status of confidential informants; the method of comparative analysis, which is used to define the possibility to assist operative units during operational investigations. The author studies the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the topical problems of law enforcement practice related to the legal status of confidential informants of law enforcement bodies. The scientific novelty of the study consists in the analysis of statutory documents regulating the legal status of confidential informants of law enforcement bodies; in the proposals about the improvement of legislation on operational investigations. The author concludes about the need to reformulate article 17 of the Federal Law “On operational investigations”. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.4.23716

Abstract: The research subject is the set of various statutory instruments regulating the work of police commissioners aimed at preventing and combating extremism among youth, the practice of their realization and scientific works of Russian and foreign scholars in this field. The author analyzes the current legal means of combating extremism among youth to detect the problems of law enforcement practice in the work of a police commissioner. The research is based on the analysis of the current legal means. The author reveals their drawbacks and forecasts possible problems, defines the directions of improvement of particular legal provisions in the context of the denoted problem. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that the author studies theoretical problems, which haven’t been studied comprehensively enough, or which are solved inconsistently. The study contains the analysis of various viewpoints of scholars on the problems under study. The author offers solutions to some of them. Based on the analysis of these viewpoints, the author offers the ways to improve combating extremism among youth. 

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0692.2017.4.23458

Abstract: The research subject is the formation of professional communicative competence of cadets of a ministerial institution in the process of self-education. The author studies the experience of Perm Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia and considers aspects of the topic as the ways of formation of communicative competence of cadets in the process of self-education and the forms of independent work of cadets (classroom work, out-of-class work and self-initiated work). Special attention is given to pedagogical support of independent work of cadets. The author offers organizing method classes, which would include general psychological and methodological recommendations about organization of independent work in each discipline. The author uses such methods as analysis and generalization of pedagogical and methodological literature on the problem under study; classification; questioning; generalization of pedagogical experience. The author formulates the ways to form professional communicative competence of cadets in the process of self-education, based on the experience of Perm Institute of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation. A special author’s contribution to the study of this topic is the proposal to form professional communicative competence not only within the discipline “The Russian language and speech culture”, but to include field-specific communicative blocks in general professional disciplines and professional disciplines, in the programs of practical classes within the principal educational program, and research activity. The author proves that effective self-education, research activity, meetings with practitioners and an hour of reading will promote the formation of professional communicative competence of cadets of ministerial institutes.