Crime as a system

Relevance. In criminological science there is a tendency to expand and intensify interdisciplinary relations, as well as the development of integrative theories of crime, which is due, among other things, to the influence of general methodological transformations in the cognition of reality. The purely statistical approach to the study of crime as a certain aggregate of crimes (persons who committed them) has limited epistemological productivity. The essential characteristics of crime determine the need to study this phenomenon from the standpoint of a systemic approach.