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Превенцията на престъпността като вид държавна политика
Crime prevention as a kind of state policy

Author(s): Yordan Aydarov
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: crimes; preventive function; coordination units; police authorities; pre-trial proceedings
Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on prevention as a major direction in the fight against crime in the conditions of transition, as an important social activity and proposes its transformation into an effective practical state policy with a main direction to counteract crimes. The exhibition also sets out specific means to achieve this goal, namely: building coordination and functional units with clearly defined preventive functions for social crime prevention. Development and adoption by the legislator of a long-term criminological program to counteract crime; unloading the criminal legislation from its excessive penalization; expanding the preventive functions of police and pre-trial authorities; formation through the media of public intolerance to all manifestations of crime.