The article examines the concept of criminological determination of crime and emphasizes social conditioning, which is its characteristic feature. The main types of determination are studied - causes, conditions and correlates. Causality, which occupies one of the defining places in the system of criminological determination, is analyzed, since the specified category reflects the objectively existing connection between crime and the phenomena that give rise to it. In addition, the study provides a list of the types of causes and conditions of crime and examines in detail the criminogenic determinants in terms of content that operate directly in the sphere of money laundering. Thus, socio-economic, political-ideological, legal, socio-psychological factors that determine current economic crime in Ukraine have been analyzed.