Vol. 13 No. 84 (2024)
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Threats to critical infrastructure: A study of transnational organized crime in Ukraine

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  • Oleg Khoronovskyi,
  • Andriy Orlean,
  • Inesa Kostenko,
  • Oksana Melnyk,
  • Maksym Sokiran
Oleg Khoronovskyi
National Academy of the State Security Service of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Author Biography

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Doctoral Student of the National Academy of the State Security Service of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Andriy Orlean
National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Author Biography

Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law and Psychology, National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Inesa Kostenko
National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
Author Biography

Ph.D. in Law, Fellow Researcher at the University of Leicester (Leicester, United Kingdom), Researcher at the Research Institute of State Building and Local Self-Government of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

Oksana Melnyk
National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Author Biography

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Criminal Procedure Department, National Academy of Internal Affairs (Kyiv, Ukraine).

Maksym Sokiran
Scientific Institute of Public Law (Kyiv, Ukraine).
Author Biography

Ph.D. in Law, Lawyer, Scientific Institute of Public Law (Kyiv, Ukraine).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.84.12.7

Published 2024-12-30

Keywords

  • cyberattacks, critical infrastructure, State security, threats to critical infrastructure facilities, transnational organized crime, transnational organized criminal groups.

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Khoronovskyi, O., Orlean, A., Kostenko, I., Melnyk, O., & Sokiran, M. (2024). Threats to critical infrastructure: A study of transnational organized crime in Ukraine. Amazonia Investiga, 13(84), 118–130. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.84.12.7

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Abstract

The purpose of the article is to study the nature and content of threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups. In the course of the research, the following scientific methods were used: historical, monographic, logical, dogmatic, normative analyses, system and structural, legal modelling, prognostic, summarization. The conceptual apparatus and criteria for classification of threats to state security, proposed in the scientific literature and relevant legal instruments are considered. The authors’ definition of the concept of “threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups” is proposed. The threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups (according to the manifestation of the source of threat) are highlighted. Further prospective lines of research are indicated.

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