Dissertation for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in specialty 081 –«Law». – National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv, 2024.
The dissertation is one of the first comprehensive monographic studies in Ukraine, which implements a practical approach to the development of criminological principles for preventing the involvement of youth in the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues in Ukraine, with the determination of ways to solve a number of praxeological problems.
The author proposed a criminological method of preventing the involvement of youth in the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues, which includes generalized international, foreign and domestic practices, criminological characteristics of the state and trends of such involvement, criminals and determinants, on the basis of which a system of prevention measures was developed at different criminological levels (general social, special criminological, individual preventive) taking into account the victimological component (victimological).
The concept of involving young people in the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues is given, which should be understood as certain actions committed by the subject of a criminal offense for any reason and related to a direct influence on a person aged 14 to 35 years with the aim cause him to decide to take part in the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or their analogues. On the basis of this definition, a classification of the types of involvement in the use of drugs, which manifests itself in the form of actions related to: the use of psychological, physical, psychological and physical violence against the victim by the inducer, was carried out.
Scientific substantiation of the stages of involvement of young people in the use of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues (methods of influencing the victim with the aim of forming his determination to participate in drug use) is provided: preparatory (selection of a victim who can be involved in drug use, creation of interest in use, weakening of control over one's own actions); direct perpetration – the use of one of the types of involvement (physical, mental; psychological-physical through promises, deception, threats, etc.); concealment (obstructing the receipt of information about entrapment, providing knowingly false information, distorting the entrapment itself) in order to choose or develop effective prevention measures for each of them or to distance themselves from illegal acts committed by the victim on his own initiative.
