Megatrend Revija (Jan 2015)
Criminal milieu and criminal phenomenon: Criminology and criminalistics aspects
Abstract
The authors goal in this work is to present a more innovative concept of research of criminal milieu and criminal phenomenon. He writes about achieved classification in the field of criminal milieu and criminal phenomenon, which are tightly connected with the corpus of criminal activities, or even, as some the opticians say, with crime, criminal organizations and criminal profit. Conceptual findings are disclosed, with special attention/accent to the complexity of criminal milieu and phenomena in it. Besides the classification, the paper also contains the elements which constitute/build certain types of criminal milieu, it's layering, structure of criminal phenomenon and how the structure of criminal milieu is sustained. It seems to the author that actual trends in criminal milieu research, within these borders, are still not promoted and presented enough in domestic literature, and the fact that the criminal milieu is the lifeline of criminal activities is a reason strong enough to encourage research in this unexplored field. Deciding to write for the first time, within these borders, an article about the criminal under world and crime, shows that I had no ide how much torment it would cause me. While writing, I met with difficulties interms of contextualization and conceptual definitions. It turns out that the identification and isolation of these institutes in criminology and criminological scientific thought, within these borders, to me is unexpectedly challenging and too complex theoretical demand for this work scope. However, I'm neither the first norther only one with this kind of problem. Every attempt of theoretical contribution to better understanding the concept of crime- and criminological thought is faced with a multitude of difficult questions. This however, does not mean that the attempts of scientific thinking and research of these complex institutes and attempts to determine them, are theoretically meaningless or impossible. The fact that it is a difficult under- taking and that these institutes are intractable or multidimensional, shows that the theoretical knowledge which is used for their interpretation has certain weaknesses, that is, when analyzing the concept of the criminal milieu and criminal phenome on, we encounter many limitations and uncertainties in our theory. By theoretical problems related to the 'criminal underworld and- criminal activity, we might as well open up the possibility for understanding other, similar and related phenomena and processes. Therefore, this paper's primary goal is to explore the achievements of the institutes of criminal milieu and criminal activity in the area of criminal and criminological thought in the world. At the same time, I do not believe nor think that my theoretical contribution would be important or noticed. My attention is oriented towards the search fora different and somewhat innovative approach which could eventually lead to some new insights into our criminal and criminological thought.
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