The article examines the issues of special measures to prevent professional crime, where, unlike general and organizational measures, special prevention measures directly and directly affect crime. A special warning has a character aimed at preventing crimes, at identifying, eliminating, neutralizing the causes, conditions of crime, correcting towards the generally accepted norms of behavior of persons with an antisocial attitude. But the main form of preventive activity in the professional crime prevention system is prevention, which has a complex character. This involves the use of not only legal, but also economic, organizational, managerial, cultural, educational and other means and methods in order to prevent illegal behavior. It is clear that criminological prevention requires special care, close attention to all sorts of unexpected events, non-standard situations, even the most insignificant deviations in the functioning of various parts of a complex social mechanism and a timely, exhaustive response to them. The purpose of the presented study is to consider the issues that arise in this area regarding individual prevention in relation to professional criminals, i. e. correction and re-education of these persons or a change in the criminogenic tendencies in the development of their personality. This implies the need to solve the problem of establishing the patterns of deviant behavior, the mechanism of its formation and change. To do this, it is necessary to strengthen control over persons previously convicted, whose behavior and views indicate the possibility of committing new crimes. Based on the study, the author comes to the conclusion that the special prevention of professional crime includes the prevention, prevention and suppression of these crimes, carried out by bodies, organizations and institutions that have the rights and obligations to do so.