The monograph is devoted to comparative criminological and comparative legal analysis of the criminal community as a specific form of organized crime. It is proved that the criminal community cannot be reduced to a criminal organization, and even more so to an organized criminal group. It is shown that criminal communities in various states have common, meeting modern challenges, and specific features due to national-ethnic mentality and peculiarities of state-legal development. Various concepts of the fight against organized crime are considered, criminal and legal measures to counter the activities of terrorist, extremist and ordinary criminal communities are proposed. For specialists in the field of criminal law sciences, teachers, postgraduates, students and undergraduates of law schools, law enforcement officers.