Journal of Islamic Science, Culture & Social Studies
Social Studies

Administrative Crime and Policing Trends in Ukraine 2019–2024 Under Wartime Disruption Offenses

Yuliia Shvets1✉ , Maksym Korniienko2 , Volodymyr Ivantsov3 , Sergii Galagan4 , Oleksii Botnarenko5 , Serhii Ternytskyi6
1356 Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs
2 Odesa State University of Internal Affairs
4 National Academy of Internal Affairs
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29-12-2025
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153-167

Abstract

 

 This study examines the behavior of policing-relevant administrative indicators in Ukraine across 2019–2024, spanning pre-escalation conditions and the period following the large-scale escalation of armed conflict beginning in February 2022. Using a measurement-aware, mixed-method descriptive design, we compile indicators across five domains: crime-processing backbone (registered and solved crimes), domestic-violence reporting, missing-persons caseload, institutional workload/service demand, and public trust in police. The evidence shows a clear discontinuity around 2022, where several domains stop behaving like extensions of pre-war patterns and begin reflecting a different measurement environment. Registered and solved crimes reverse direction after 2021 and expand through 2024, while the clearance proxy rises overall but does not move smoothly. Domestic-violence reports show volatility followed by post-2021 elevation, missing-persons magnitudes expand in post-2022 snapshots, and trust softens from 2023 to 2024. Cross-domain comparison reveals both convergence (multiple indicators shifting together around 2022) and divergence (clearance and trust moving differently from crime volumes). We interpret these patterns through an institutional-output lens: observed series are jointly shaped by changing reporting conditions, recording practices, coverage, and case processing constraints, not just by underlying prevalence. The study demonstrates a crisis-ready approach where indicators are reported faithfully to their public form, discontinuities are made explicit, and conclusions avoid over-claiming. Recommendations include pairing numbers with coverage/definitional metadata, treating cross-domain divergence as an audit trigger, and strengthening multi-source triangulation to distinguish changes in harm from changes in measurement. 

Keywords: administrative indicators crime reporting data validity policing trends wartime disruption

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Shvets, Y. ., Korniienko, M. ., Ivantsov, V. ., Galagan, S. ., Botnarenko, O. ., & Ternytskyi, S. . (2025). Administrative Crime and Policing Trends in Ukraine 2019–2024 Under Wartime Disruption Offenses. Ascarya: Journal of Islamic Science, Culture, and Social Studies, 5(2), 153-167. https://doi.org/10.53754/htjdwq12
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