organized crime

Studying of organized crime is an important task not only for theoreticians but for practitioners as well. No less important is the development of effective measures for prevention of illegal activities of such groups. The peculiarity of the above mentioned organizations is that their activities usually inflict harm not only on individuals or legal entities but also threaten entire brunches of national economies and jeopardize the proper functioning or even the existence of the latter.

Annotation: the article is devoted to the analysis of objective and subjective determinants influencing the emergence and activities of organized terrorist groups. The objective determinants are the occasion to unite individuals in such organizations. Subjective determinants contribute to a person's membership in a terrorist association.