The Public Necessity of Applying Measures to Prevent Mass Riots

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This article explores the legal, social, and ACCEPTED 29 June 2025 PUBLISHED 31 July 2025 practical aspects of implementing preventive measures VOLUME Vol.07 Issue07 2025 against mass riots. It analyzes the concept of public necessity in the context of maintaining public order and CITATION ensuring societal stability. The author examines the role of law enforcement agencies, legal frameworks, and Nuratdinov Srajatdin Kamalatdinovich. (2025). The Public Necessity of Applying Measures to Prevent Mass Riots. The American Journal of international experiences in the early identification and Political Science Law and Criminology, 7(07), 57–61. prevention of civil unrest. Special attention is given to https://doi.org/10.37547/tajpslc/Volume07Issue07-11 balancing public security with human rights and freedoms. The article also offers recommendations for improving national legislation and institutional COPYRIGHT mechanisms to effectively prevent mass riots in © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms democratic societies. of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. Keywords: Mass riots, public order, prevention measures, public necessity, law enforcement, legal regulation, public safety, civil unrest, human rights, security policy. Introduction: Literature and experience of mass riots in the world over the last decade show that mass riots, in addition to social, economic and political roots, also have organizational and communicative aspects. Research shows that studying the social, economic and political causes presented in this table through communication and preventive measures, as well as finding solutions to eliminate them, is a crucial part of preventing mass riots. Public order is the most important support of human society, without which it is impossible to ensure harmony, peace and development of society. Maintaining public order in society is one of the most important tasks of the modern state [1]. Accordingly, the study of phenomena related to public order and public disorder, institutions and rules for their regulation, causes and consequences of disorder, as well as measures to prevent it, is part of the main The American Journal of Political Science Law and Criminology 57 https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajpslc The American Journal of Political Science Law and Criminology subject of social sciences, as well as law and are still not clear enough, often based on the views of criminology. Violation of public order is recognized as Soviet criminology on prevention. The Law of the a socially dangerous act that poses a threat to public Republic of Uzbekistan "On the Prevention of Crimes", safety in the broad sense and public order in the although it defines the general and organizational narrow sense [2]. Thus, Article 244 of the Criminal aspects of prevention, does not contain deep scientific Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan defines as a crime and legal approaches to the prevention of mass riots. In such acts as public calls for mass riots (part one), the this important area, along with understanding the social commission of such calls by a group of persons by prior essence, legal foundations and criminological conspiracy (part two), preparation for the commission characteristics of mass riots, it is also necessary to of mass riots (part three), the organization of mass understand the social need to prevent these crimes. riots and active participation in them (part four). This Since understanding this social need provides a strategic is a multi-object crime, expressed in an encroachment basis for determining and implementing measures to on public safety, public order, the life and health of prevent mass riots. After all, if you do not determine the others, as well as property [3]. Laws and explanations social need and the role of the state in this area, (comments, judicial explanations) mainly comment on preventive measures will turn into technical measures, the doctrinal content of the crime of mass riots, do not and subsequently, conflicting with such institutions as give it a clear definition, do not take into account its human rights and the rule of law, they will lose their social essence and system. In scientific literature, mass meaning and deviate from legal norms, which will lead riots are described in different ways. For example, the to illegal practices similar to the preventive measures of scientist Grigoriev defines mass riots as a crime the Soviet period, or to a complete loss of vigilance, committed intentionally by a large group of people (a which will lead to the impossibility of preventing mass crowd), which, by such actions as mass murder, arson, riots. Prevention of mass riots is not just a set of damage to property, violates the foundations of public technical and practical measures, it is a deep and order and safety [4]. M. Rustambaev [5] identifies, in systemic strategic criminologically based legal policy. addition to public order, its con