APPLICATION OF RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES IN CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE INSTITUTIONS
The article analyzes scientific approaches to the definition of research methods for the prevention of criminal offenses in criminal-executive institutions. Methods of knowledge are important for the chosen research methodology, and they are means of revealing, deploying and systematizing the content of the subject of research on the prevention of criminal offenses in criminal-executive institutions. It has been established that recently scientists in their research have not only begun to create their own methodological tools, but have subjected it to scientific analysis, which positively affects the final result of the study. However, in such cases, young scientists often reduce it to a traditional list of general scientific methods of cognition, since they are universal and are used in any cognitive process. It is determined that the necessary condition for the application of the historical and legal method is the observance of the principle of unity of historical and logical, which consists in the logic of the study of the prevention of criminal offenses in criminal-executive institutions; discloses the historical recurrence of its phenomena and processes, their general principles of development, regardless of the specific forms in which they are expressed. It was noted that when applying the comparative legal method in the study of the prevention of criminal offenses in criminal-executive institutions, the goal should not be to fully implement foreign experience, since such borrowing is possible only considering the specifics of the functioning of the State criminal-executive service of Ukraine. The most common sociological methods for knowing and assessing the level of criminal offenses committed in criminal-executive institutions are the method of interviewing convicts and staff and the method of expert assessments. These methods are the most universal for identifying the causes and conditions of criminal offences in criminal-executive institutions. It has been established that the choice of a research method depends on many factors, but its basis is mandatory methods: dialectical; comparative legal, historical; historical and legal, sociological and dogmatic. To a lesser extent, scientists use methods such as: the method of structural-system analysis; formal legal; statistical; formal-logical; a systemic-structural and systematic method. The methods and tools of scientific analysis of criminal offences committed in criminal-executive institutions by both convicts and staff allow the State Prison Service to develop comprehensive scientifically based measures to prevent them.