Refugees and Global Migration (Review of the IX Session of the International Forum «Crime and Criminal Law in the Era of Globalization»)

The article is devoted to the 9th session of the international forum "Crime and Criminal Law in the Era of Globalization", which was held on 9-12 December 2017 in India. The session was held on the theme "Prospects of Refugees and Global Migration" and brought together more than 60 delegates from 13 countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, India, Spain, Italy, Kenya, Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Philippines). The forum participants discussed global and local patterns of migration, human trafficking, crime and criminal behavior among migrants. The article contains the main provisions of the reports of the participants of all the delegations of the forum. The reports of the Russian delegates are the most detailed. Yu.V. Golik suggested using the term "criminological futurology" to characterize the prognostic course of the crime science, revealing the main futurological problems. V.P. Konyakhin spoke about the international experience of criminalization of illegal migration and the problems of implementing international norms in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. A.I. Korobeev and Ya.O. Kuchina presented a report on the problems of determining the jurisdiction of criminal law with respect to "cloud data" as well as the access of law enforcement agencies to such data. I.Ya. Kozachenko spoke about the content of national and international counter-terrorism measures and the models used in the design of these measures. N.A. Lopashenko presented the developed scale of four degrees of criminality risk of migration processes. D.N. Sergeev made a report on the study of the spread of radical views among the convicted in the Russian correctional institutions. A.I. Chuchaev and Yu.V. Gracheva presented a report on the concept and public danger of illegal migration. A number of delegations (Argentina, Spain, Brazil) focused on the problems of protecting the rights of migrants in criminal proceedings, creating social institutions for migrants. The reports of the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Serbia, and Macedonia dealt mainly with the criminal legal problems of illegal migration. Speeches of the Indian delegation touched upon the economic, social, environmental and political prerequisites for outgoing migration.

criminological science, criminal policy, illegal migration, organized crime, causes of crime, transnational crime, migration crisis, criminal jurisdiction, smuggling of migrants, implementation of international norms, international criminal law

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