Special features of criminal statistics of criminality in the field of sport

Abstract

The modern state of criminality and its statistical analysis are an integral part of any criminological research including the field of sport. Besides the main factors forming the crime rate, the data of the judicial statistics are also influenced by the so-called minor factors that are beyond the statistics. The objective of the present research is to reveal the factors influencing the formation of indicators of statistics in the field of sport. The research uses the systematic, structural and functional, comparative and historical, and formal judicial methods that allowed determining the main directions and methods of execution of criminality recording in the field of sport that is highly latent. It was determined that there were discrepancies of the normative requirements with the qualification of wrongful acts that allowed revealing the particular correlation between the changes in the criminal law and the statistical indicators. The overrating of crime detection statistics by the particular changes in parameters of crime committed shall be called additional factors influencing the reliability and objectivity of the statistics. At the same time, the statistics of crime committed in the field of sport are required for prognostic purposes, as well as for preventive purposes, as its absence contradicts the social practice. This problem is especially acute for sportsmen who due to the reasons related, for example, to the harm injured to their health and life, do not have the ability to continue their professional career. It is a systematic approach to registering crimes committed in the field of sport that allows performing the crime prevention in full that can save also the health and life of a sportsman.

Legal grounds for the impossibility of applying administrative prejudice in the criminal law of the Russian Federation in sport: Analysis of modern approaches

“…Based on the empirical material of investigators and criminologists in the field of crime investigation, problems and trends in the development of administrative prejudice in modern Russia have been identified and it has been concluded that in the Russian law of sport enforcement policy there is no single system of mechanisms for the formation of this institution in practice (Malkov 2011). The author of the study proves the lack of mechanisms for the application of administrative prejudice in the criminal law of sport of the Russian Federation (Bezborodov et al, 2021) .…”