The monograph of historians of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Uzhgorod National University and Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas highlights the ethno-cultural role of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the social life of Ukraine in the XX century. The church-religious transformations in the western region are analyzed on the base of the little-known source material. Particular attention is paid to the life of church structures after the restoration of independent Ukraine.

The monograph examines the state, structure and dynamics of crime in Ukraine, analyzes the current crime situation in Ukraine as a whole and in the capital of the country, in particular, considers the criminological aspects of laundering illegally obtained income, criminal and juvenile prevention. On the basis of doctrinal aspects, proposals have been developed for a criminological framework of counteracting crime.
The publication is intended for researchers, lecturer, post-graduate students and also heads of the law enforcement bodies.