Permissibility of civil vigilantism in Russia as a manner of crime prevention
https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-3-113-122
Abstract
The ineffective activity of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary to neutralize certain criminal phenomena reduces the population's faith in the ability of the state to counteract crime, generating unofficial social mechanisms to eliminate offenses. One such social institution is vigilantism. Therefore, the purpose of this article will be to study the admissibility of using the most well-known and spectacular forms of vigilant behavior in the system of crime prevention in Russia.
To solve the set goal, it seems correct to give a definition of civil vigilantism as tasks, to study how it manifests itself in objective reality, to analyze the possibility of using extrajudicial repressions in social reality.
The goals and objectives of the study determined a methodology based on the philosophical and epistemological aspect, which specified the methods - content analysis, questioning, qualitative and quantitative assessment of the results obtained.
As a result, it was found that the institution of civil vigilantism in Russia is represented by various organizations, and only those that are considered useful for the state anti-criminal policy remain active, regardless of the social harmfulness or danger of the behavior of its participants. Civil vigilantism takes the form of extrajudicial coercion and repression, but this form of behavior appeals to most young people because of its simplicity, theatricality, rituality, and imaginary effectiveness. The use of institutions of civil vigilantism will bring more benefit than harm to the state preventive system, provided that it is used as an auxiliary tool based on the principles of voluntariness, controlled autonomy, and reasonable transformation.
About the Author
A. V. Petrovskiy
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anton V. Petrovskiy, Cand. of Sci. (Law), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology
Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
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Petrovskiy A.V. Permissibility of civil vigilantism in Russia as a manner of crime prevention. Legal Bulletin of the Kuban State University. 2022;(3):113-122. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-3-113-122
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