Criminological safety as a type of national security

The article deals with issues related to the problem of criminological security. Scientific analysis is the relevance of the problem, the evaluation of the concept of “criminological security”, proposed by various scientists. The Author believes that it is advisable to present criminological security as a subsystem of any type of security that requires a separate analysis and appropriate support. Criminological security is an element of any kind of security, for example, international, military, foreign policy, state, public, etc., it includes various kinds of criminal threats and other phenomena related to crime. The data of the author's research concerning the influence of certain criminal threats faced by citizens are presented. The author believes that the presence of criminal threats in all spheres of life of the individual, society and the state requires the creation of the corresponding threats to the system of criminal security. In order to create such a system, it is necessary to identify the actual state of crime and its manifestations in order to identify real and potential internal and external threats at all levels of government, in all spheres of public relations and for each individual.