Preventive Activity for Providing Public Order and Legality in St. Petersburg (on materials of a sociological research)

The purpose of the article is assessment of a criminogenic situation and the analysis of activities of law enforcement agencies for safety of residents of St. Petersburg. Quantitative and qualitative methods of a sociological research and also methods of the correlation and regressive analysis and expert estimates are used. The research of a condition of crime and detection of opinion of residents of St. Petersburg in relation to various forms of her manifestation, assessment of activity of law enforcement agencies is result. The conducted research allows to draw a number of conclusions: different types of offenses have both the general social and economic determinants, and more concrete, specific which have received the interpretation on the basis of the obtained empirical data; it is summarized that achievement of a certain stability of system of public safety doesn’t guarantee this trend further as new social calls appear. For example, the extremist factor, recruiting work exerts impact on criminalization from the extremist organizations, etc. today. As results of a research, the number of the registered crimes in St. Petersburg of terrorist orientation testify it isn’t so big, but it has resonant character and is calculated on fear, social destabilization. Residents and experts are unanimous when determining the types of crime exerting the greatest impact on a criminogenic situation in St. Petersburg are the crimes connected with drug trafficking, property crimes and crimes against the personality. In the majority a case respondents connect the ideas of a condition of crime in St. Petersburg in the next years with change of a social and economic and political situation and believe that the criminogenic situation in the city will tend to improvement though this tendency has no convincing argument. It is possible to draw a conclusion that purposeful work on increase in safety of citizens in St. Petersburg has the positive results and demands the further improvement. Scheduled maintenance on her prevention acts as one of the key directions of fight against crimes.From the point of view of citizens, are the most important: he preventive activity of police directed to strengthening of patrol of city streets, domestic territories, continuous raids in criminogenic places; improvement of work of district police officers; quick response to addresses of citizens; universal installation of surveillance cameras and increase in solvability of crimes.