The concept and peculiarities of criminological characterization of regional crime

Subject of research: the basic characteristics of regional crime. Purpose of research: to determine the content of regional crime for the subsequent development of effective measures to counteract this socially negative phenomenon. Research methods: dialectical, logical, comparative, system-structural, analysis and synthesis. Objects of research: social relations originating and functioning within the regional system. Research findings: the importance of regional crime as an independent object of research and differentiated approach to the development of measures to prevent it; the main scientific approaches to the study of crime in the region with the identification of key regional indicators, such as socio-economic, administrative-territorial, demographic, climatic and environmental, constituting a group of determinative factors that affect the positive or negative trends in the development of crime in the region.