GENERAL SOCIAL MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN THE FIELD OF ROAD SAFETY AND VEHICLE OPERATION

Abstract

The article notes that the safety of the individual is the primary basis for the safety of society and the state, and its real high level and ability to be guaranteed by the state testify to the high capabilities of society and the state, and therefore the high level of legal security in general. A person’s confidence in the possibilities of realizing their own interests additionally motivates them to take really significant actions for society and the state. Therefore, personal safety is an imperative of Ukraine’s legal security policy. It was analyzed that the practice of ensuring the legal security of a person remains ineffective, since the activities of state authorities and local self-government in this area are largely disordered, and the creation of a new system is extremely slow and contradictory, and is not based on sufficient scientific and theoretical studies. In particular, it is not taken into account that, in contrast to the state-centered paradigm of law that dominated in the past, law is increasingly acquiring a human-centered meaning, accordingly, the problem of ensuring the legal security of the individual is actualized. The lack of a unified national concept of combating crime, the inconsistency of state-wide, regional, and sectoral state targeted social prevention programs in the relevant areas does not contribute to the prevention of crime in the country. Such a situation does not correspond to the proclaimed constitutional provisions on a social, democratic and legal state, as the existing situation does not take into account the realities of the present. The article states that the problem of crime prevention occupies a special place in the establishment of a legal state, the creation of which is impossible without ensuring active offensive activity in this direction and achieving a slowdown in the rate of crime growth on the basis of clearly defined priorities, gradually increasing the efforts of the state and the public, improving legislation, organization of means and methods of prevention, detection and investigation of criminal offenses. It was concluded that an important task in the field of law-making activity remains the work on creating a new paradigm of legislation aimed, in particular, at the protection of road traffic and the operation of road transport, ensuring its safety, and the creation of a balanced system of norms regarding administrative delicts and criminal offenses in this area on based on the changes and additions. The considered general social measures for the prevention of criminal offenses will serve the formation and development of criminological policy in the field of RTS in Ukraine.