Current state and prospects of ukrainian criminology development

The article is devoted to the description of the current state and prospects of the development of Ukrainian criminology. National criminology has been formed as a methodological transitional science that has been integrated into the general civilisation, liberal democratic context and discourse over the past thirty years. It has been determined, described and explained the nature and degree of the development of certain components of the criminology subject matter, in particular, its methodology, the doctrine of crime, determination of crime, personality of a criminal offender, the mechanism of individual criminal and victim behaviour, combating and preventing crime, and specific subject matter theories within the so-called political, economic criminology, criminology of law-making, etc. It has been proved that there are still shortcomings in the objective and materialistic approach to the study of the criminal offender's personality (as a system of socially significant qualities, rather than as an existential, spiritual entity; the primacy of the social and dialogical nature of the personality over its reflective, transcendental components, etc.), criminogenic determination, and understanding of the crime in general. Simultaneously, a methodological breakthrough has been made, and a variety of methodological approaches, principles, techniques, concepts, as well as the implementation of the cognitive capabilities of phenomenology, existentialism, synergetics, social constructivism, psychoanalysis, trauma studies, psychohistorical approach, game theory, etc. have been presented into the criminological research toolkit. 10 promising and priority areas of criminological research have been proposed, including: methodology of criminology, criminology of war, modern Russian fascism, criminological support of transitional justice, frontline crime, etc.

criminology, subject, methodology, state, development, perspective direction