Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

On the basis of the study, it was found that transnational criminal organizations have the most complex structure, since the desire for maximum security in the implementation of such activities, as well as the need for effective avoidance of social control make them constantly improve. The article outlines the main models of transnational criminal organizations in the world. An analysis of foreign experience in studying the problems of transnational crime allowed to investigate the formation and development of transnational criminal organizations and their hierarchical construction. There are several types of models of the structural organization of transnational criminal groups. Each of them is characteristic for a certain area of action of organized crime, time of existence and sphere of its activity. Transnational criminal organizations have the most complex structure, since the pursuit of maximum security in the implementation of such activities, as well as the need for effective avoidance of social control, make them continuously improved. Given all the disadvantages of traditional models, modern criminal organizations move through the selection of the best structural characteristics that they use for their own organization. Consequently, modern models of organized crime formations combine elements of various well-known structural characteristics and principles that allow them to expand both the areas of transnational criminal activity and to ensure its effective security. In the most general form, the schematic organization of the elements from which the criminal syndicate forms into a single system is a rigidly structured core with signs of a vertical management structure, organized according to the traditional canons of the corporate model, which is organically combined with the flexible network structure of the peripheral units. The latter, as a rule, are well isolated from each other, have a division of labor between the links, and members of each of them within a separate cell are closely connected with each other by personal, emotional connections (family, national, ethnic, etc.). It allows to have not only a well-established mechanism of their actions in the "production sphere", it is easy to manage and keep control of their activities, but also to maximize the center and other peripheral links of the network from the influence of social control in the event of failure of one of them. Such a combination of the most effective principles of organization and management of a corporate model characterized by rigid centralization for higher levels of isolation, amorphous and fluidity of classical network models, is currently demonstrated by most of the known transnational criminal organizations.