Russian Journal of Economics and Law (Dec 2018)
Review by the official opponent of Doctoral (Law) thesis (major 12.00.08 - criminal law and criminology; criminal-execution law): “Theoretical and applied issues of counteracting the criminal exploitation of a human (criminological research)” by V. I. Kovalenko
Abstract
Objective: to comprehensively and objectively assess the Doctoral dissertation “Theoretical and applied issues of counteracting the criminal exploitation of a human (criminological research)” by V.I. Kovalenko, successfully defended in 2017 at Dissertation Council of All-Russia Scientific-research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.Methods: dialectical approach to cognition of social phenomena using general scientific methods of cognition, based on it:analysis, synthesis, comparison, etc.Results: the author’s conception is analyzed of the system of combating criminal exploitation of a person under the new social conditions, as well as its structure, the main trends of criminal exploitation of a human and the possibility of an adequate response of the state and society to this phenomenon. Attention is drawn to the unconditional benefit of the performed research, first of all, for those who study the criminological problems of combating criminal exploitation of humans. Some provisions of the dissertation research are critically evaluated; the author points to the need for a criminological evaluation of the exploitation of humans without the use of violence and suggests improving the applicant’s proposals on forming the conception of preventing criminal exploitation of humans. The article presents the reviewer’s views on the basic doctrinal categories used in the dissertation research, like “personal freedom”, “conceptual foundations”, “criminal exploitation”, and reveals their meaning in relation to the study. This approach emphasizes not only the quality of the research, but also the high qualification of the expert. Scientific novelty: the author gives a legal assessment, an assessment of the Doctoral (Law) thesis “Theoretical and applied issues of counteracting the criminal exploitation of a human (criminological research)” by V.I. Kovalenko is provided, major12.00.08 “Criminal law and criminology; criminal-executive law”; its main advantages and regulations are identified that require additional scientific study or argumentation.Practical significance: the paper allows determining the current state of criminal exploitation of a human and outlining the prospects of its neutralization.
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