The Mechanism of Corruption Crimes in the Field of Healthcare and Its Significance for the Formulation of Recommendations for the Investigation of These Crimes

Legal relations in the field of healthcare are among the most significant for the state and society. One of the means of their protection is the inevitability of bringing to criminal responsibility for persons guilty of criminal encroachments on these legal relations, which is ensured by effective identification, disclosure and investigation. Corruption crimes are one of the types of crimes in the field of healthcare that pose the greatest danger to the state, since their commission is often discredited. The identification, disclosure and investigation of these crimes are the most difficult due to a number of features of the mechanism of their commission. For this reason, the basis for recommendations for the identification, disclosure and investigation of crimes of this type should be knowledge about the mechanism of commission of these crimes. Studies of the features of this mechanism were the subject of the proposed article. In the course of this study, a whole set of methods was used, which ensured the scientific validity of the results obtained. In particular, the following methods were used: dialectical, induction and deduction, modeling, situational and system-activity. Thanks to the use of these methods, it was possible to identify those features of the mechanism of committing corruption crimes in the field of healthcare, the knowledge of which is able to formulate recommendations for the detection, disclosure and investigation of these crimes, allowing to optimize the establishment of the circumstances of the crime committed and the guilt of the persons involved in it. Knowledge of the mechanism of committing these crimes is able to ensure effective practice of their detection, disclosure and investigation.