Epifanova Natalia

The economic approach to the study of the crime as one of the modern trends in the development of the neo-institutional economics is considered in the article. Despite some similarities the authors reveal the differences between the criminal and civil law that allow you to show the limitations of the traditional theory of the criminal law and the necessity of considering the crime from the point of view of the economic theory. However, in situations when the absolute compensation of the harm is impossible the criminal law supplements the civil one. In the economic theory the behavior of the criminal is seen as rational, implying that if costs of the threatening punishment are higher than the expected benefits from the crime, the crime won't be committed. The economic models are applicable with the greatest validity to the situations of planned, premeditated and prepared crimes. The main feature of the economic approach to the study of the crime allows you to find the tools for suppression of certain crimes, and thus to minimize the social costs of crime.

The intra-industry trade factor is considered by the author as one of the indicators of the assessment of threats to the economic security of the border regions of Russia. In order to verify this hypothesis, the author calculated the index of Grubel-Lloyd index and trade overlap index on the example of the border regions of the Siberian Federal District. It is shown that the share of the intra-industry trade characterizes the technological structure of the regional export and indirectly indicates to the level of the technological development of the border region. The analysis of the intra-industry trade indices allows us to estimate how much the region's economy depends on the situation on the world commodity and commodity markets and is able to resist the negative externality.

The article covers the current trends of the Siberian Federal District border regions development. It is emphasized that these trends are key in the formation of the modern threats to the economic security of the border regions. The authors analyze the main indicators of the regional economic security. The analysis results show a clear decrease in the level of the economic security of the border regions in comparison with the hinterland regions. It is shown that the main threats to the economic security of the border regions of the Siberian Federal District in 2014 were a low level of diversification of their economies, inability of the economies of these regions to grow sustainably (low volume of the gross regional product per capita), high dependence on imports of key products for these economies, export volumes reduction.