Information Support for Combating Criminal Offences by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine

The article deals with the research of information support for combating criminal offences of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine taking into account the criminological aspect. This area of information support is directly related to the development of the modern information digital society. The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine (SBGSU) uses modern methods and technologies of criminology to combat criminal offences. The need to improve the organisational and legal instruments (methods) of information support and continuous improvement of information technologies in the field of combating criminal offences determine the relevance of the research topic raised in the article. The purpose of the article is to study, identify the peculiarities and prospects of using information support for combating criminal offences by the SBGSU in the criminological aspect. The methodological basis of the research was formed by a combination of general scientific, sectoral and special scientific methods, which enabled to achieve the research objective when applied in a comprehensive manner. The dialectical method made it possible to consider information support as a complex legal phenomenon in the search for opposites of the essence, elements, and features in their interconnection. The structural and functional method was used to establish the components of information support and the relationship between them. The formal and logical method enabled to formulate concepts and identify areas of information support for combating criminal offences by the SBGSU. To formulate proposals for improving information support for combating criminal offences, the forecasting method was used. Within the article: the essence of information support is clarified; the information support of criminological monitoring is studied; the possibilities of risk analysis as a component of information support of criminological monitoring are analysed; information support for combating criminal offences based on open data is considered; the prospects for using artificial intelligence are studied, and promising directions for information support for combating criminal offences by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine are proposed.