REBALANCING RESPONSIBILITY FOR CRIME PREVENTION: A LEGAL-INSTITUTIONAL MODEL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SOCIAL-SECTOR AUTHORITIES IN UZBEKISTAN
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Shakhboz Jumanazar ugli Nusratullaev ()Files
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This article examines an institutional imbalance that arises when crime-prevention legislation recognizes a broad range of competent authorities while day-to-day preventive responsibility remains concentrated in law-enforcement bodies. The problem is especially significant where major criminogenic risks - unemployment, social exclusion, addiction, family instability, school disengagement, and health-related vulnerabilities - fall primarily within the professional competence of employment, social-protection, health, education, probation, and local-government institutions. The study uses comparative legal and institutional analysis to distinguish formal inter-agency participation from shared preventive responsibility. It proposes a functional responsibility principle under which the public authority that possesses the legal mandate and professional tools to reduce a specific risk factor should bear a measurable preventive duty for that factor, while law-enforcement bodies retain public-safety, risk-detection, legal-intervention, and coordination functions. Particular attention is given to Uzbekistan's evolving legal framework and Resolution No. 754 of the Cabinet of Ministers, which strengthens mahalla-level social prevention, individualized programmes, digital information exchange, and joint monitoring. The article concludes that sustainable prevention requires a shift from formal cooperation with law enforcement to a legally structured system of shared institutional responsibility, case management, outcome accountability, and feedback.
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