Security and Criminal Policy

• Author: Andrejs Vilks
• Position: PhD, Riga Stradina University, Faculty of Law, Latvia
• Pages: 89-96

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Security and Criminal Policy

Andrejs VILKS

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Abstract: The current period of the public evolution can be identified as one of the global (econo mic,

financial, political, social, legal and moral) periods of crisis. In worsened crisis conditions the level of

crimes remains at such a level when it is hard to control them by means of law enforcement authority

– capacity of institution resources and workload exceeds its li mits. Great role in combating of crimes

is attributed to prevention. To a certain extent, the goals of state criminal law policy are not only to

punish, but to restore the possible truth as well, to prevent the society, to resocialize and prevent the

people from committing of crimes. The investments into people’s educational policy is incomparably

more important than capturing of the offenders, their punishment and execution of th e sentence.

When working out crime prevention measures in criminal law police, one should use also foreign

experience and the latest technologies. We perceive criminal law policy as the state activity in

provision of legal ord er in individual’s protection from crimes, violation of the rights, and

implementation of the law enforcement.

Keywords: crime crime policy; law; prevention; security

1. Introducion

Security is a support of successful development and welfare of any country, the

reason of which is the people’s fear of physical, property, sexual, moral,

intellectual and other kind of threats. Responsibility of the government and its

corresponding institutions is to provide stability of any individual, as well as the

public system. Crime and other violations of the law cause irreparable harm both

for separate public representatives, as well as for the public and civilization at

large. Thus, since the time when the mankind began to be aware of these deviations

from the generally accepted ones and violations, the machanisms and forms were

developed how to protect oneself against violation and how to prevent it. Already

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PhD, Riga Stradina University, Faculty of Law, Latvia, Address: dzirciema 16, LV-1007 Riga,

Latvia, Tel.: (+371) 67409218, Corresponding author: Andrejs.vilks@rsu.lv.

AUDJ, vol. 12, no. 1/2016, pp. 89-96