Some aspects of violent crime prevention

Introduction: the article considers some criminological features of violent crime, identifies the range of acts related to them. Types of violence and, accordingly, violent crimes are disclosed. The factors determining the criminal behaviour of persons committing murder, intentional infliction of serious harm to health, etc. are analysed, the main problems related to the prevention of this type of crime are highlighted. Materials and Methods: the regulatory basis of the study is formed by the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation. The methodological basis of the study was modern general scientific and private scientific methods of cognition of social phenomena and processes (dialectical, inductive, deductive, analysis, synthesis, formal and legal, modeling). The Results of the Study: the author outlines the main measures to prevent violent crime. The features of the victim's behavior and the prevention of deviant behavior of persons prone to violence, who are in unfavorable social conditions (including adolescents), as well as already have criminal experience of violence are highlighted. Findings and Conclusions: when implementing measures to prevent violent crime, its most important element is preventive work with both potential and actual victims of the crimes under study. In addition, to prevent violent crime, it is necessary to level out those negative social phenomena that serve as a kind of “background” of criminal violence, often determining it.