The official statistics of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has recorded that in 2017 the number of cases of human trafficking from Ukraine increased threefold (342 cases versus 115 in 2016). Such a sharp growth of the aforementioned crime was last observed in 2005 to 2006. Today, there are no administrative and territorial districts in Ukraine from which future victims of human traffickers would not be recruited. According to criminal proceedings, about 70% of human trafficking victims are residents of large Ukrainian cities. The aim of this research is to investigate current trends of human trafficking phenomenon from Ukrainian cities and villages and to present the ways how the victims fall into slavery. The revealed trends of the human trafficking from Ukraine allow us to affirm that whereas similarity of social and demographic, moral and physiological characteristics of urban and rural residents, the second ones have a higher level of risk to become a victim of human trafficking. The results obtained allow us to develop evidence-based recommendations for the human trafficking from Ukraine decreasing as from the hole country, as rural locals, in particular. The new feature in human trafficking is a negative trend that Ukraine is changing from the country in which human trafficking victims originate into the destination country for human trafficking.

Introduction: All social life spheres in Ukraine are influenced by corruption. Ukrainian citizens were inquired in order to determine corruption rate in various social spheres. It was conditioned by reforming criminal justice and administrative management, which is directed, particularly, for liquidation of corruption in the state. Special emphasize is stressed on corruption rate in the medical sphere. The aim of the article is to determine: 1) population’s attitude towards to corruption, in particular, in the medical sphere; 2) the most corruptive social spheres; 3) efficiency of anti-corruption measures; 4) readiness of population to participate into struggle with corruption. Materials and methods: The study is grounded on dialectical, comparative, analytic, synthetic, sociological (special-purpose inquiry form, interview), statistic and comprehensive research methods. The study group consisted of 1 120 citizens and 513 medical and pharmaceutical professionals of Ukraine. Questions were related to: 1) citizens’ contact with corruption; 2) corruption expansion rate in state authorities, self-governing authorities, in various infrastructure spheres, particularly, in healthcare; 3) awareness about struggle with corruption in the state and in the region and determination of citizens’ readiness to cope with corruption. Results: Corruption contact level of citizens remains steadily high. Corruption in the medical sphere is the most widespread: during the previous year before the inquire 63% respondents were involved into corruptive schemes. Corruption in the medical sphere can be subdivided in the following levels: from patient to doctor; inside the hospital – from a healthcare institution employee to the executive hospital staff; on state level concerning state procurements of medications. A bribe to health care professionals was given for: receipt of a sick leave certificate and various references (for example, about unfitness for military service, fitness for driving a car or fulfillment of particular works); high-quality conduct of an operation, medical servicing rendering; writing out a “necessary” prescription; approval or hiding of any bodily injuries; falsification of a true cause of death. All health care professionals have come across different corruptive practices, among which the following payments are widespread: for employment in a hospital, license for private medical practice or establishment of private clinics, “avoidance” of checks of healthcare institutions’ activity. The largest bribes are given state officials for participation in tenders for medical drugs supply by pharmaceutical companies. All health care professionals have come across different corruptive practices, among which the following payments are widespread: for employment in a hospital, license for private medical practice or establishment of private clinics, “avoidance” of checks of healthcare institutions’ activity. Conclusion: Corruption on the sphere of medical practice is complex phenomenon. The conducted poll made it possible to structure the corruption problem, to see its various levels and levels. In respondents’ opinion, a scrupulous information campaign is a positive tendency: 45% consider this is a guarantee of anticorruption. Nevertheless, only 5% respondents assume personal notification of anticorruption bodies about receipt of a bribe by medical staff.

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The  complex process of developing effective measures covered by the strategy to reduce the possibility of committing crimes should be based on an objective information model of the existing criminal situation in the country. In turn, this information model includes, first, quantitative and qualitative  indicators of crime, the main source of which is official criminal law statistics, and, secondly, contains information about the established by theoretical analysis determining the patterns of development and reproduction of criminal reality. At the same time, the task of this information model is to create predictive scenarios of possible options for further development of the criminal situation both in the country as a whole and in its individual regions. The purpose of this article is an in-depth analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of the criminal situation in Ukraine over the past seven to eight years. Such an analysis of the main types of criminal manifestations allows us to determine the nature of modern crime, to identify the most unfavorable trends in its development. This analysis makes it possible to create a complete detailed information model of the existence and development of criminal manifestations in the country, which should always be taken into account when developing appropriate crime prevention strategies. This is the link between criminological theory and practice. During the research, the authors applied dialectical, comparative, analytical, statistical, and other methods of processing and analyzing statistical material that characterizes the state of crime in Ukraine. The study found that the difficult socio-economic and militarypolitical situation that has been observed in Ukraine in recent years has contributed to the emergence of a number of new trends in the criminal reality of our state. These new trends are reflected in the following: the structure of crime has changed dramatically due to the prevalence of so-called crimes of aggression (violent, self-serving and violent crime, crimes against personal freedom, public safety, etc.); the quality of crime indicators has deteriorated due to an increase in the proportion of serious and especially serious crimes; a number of new socially dangerous acts that were not previously considered crimes have appeared in the criminal code; law enforcement agencies register criminal acts in large numbers, as in the past they were not known to the Ukrainian society at all; and so on. In connection with the above, the main conclusion is made that the national criminological science faces the task of systematic monitoring of the development of the criminal situation in Ukraine in order to work out in advance effective ways and means to stabilize this unfavorable situation.