Legal Encyclopedia. The letter K

of criminological victimology

- Criminology industry, the general theory, the doctrine of the sacrifice of having the subject of investigation the victim of the crime.

In addition to the generally applicable in criminology term "victim" KV operates is a direct victim of the offense by the term "victim" regardless of whether the person affected by a crime victim or not recognized.

The subject of the study KV are:

1) persons who have suffered a crime, physical, moral or material damage;

2) the offender; his conduct related to the crime (including behavior after it);

3) the relationship that linked the offender and the victim before the crime was committed; situations in which the harm to happen.

Currently she continues to feel the need to get more specific information about those who have become a victim of violence or theft. Knowledge of the characteristics of these individuals, the analysis and synthesis of data on them, along with the study of offender can help better determine the direction of preventive activities, identify groups of people who most often suffer from one or other socially dangerous encroachment, ie establish risk groups and work with them. KV studies:

1) sociological, psychological, legal, moral and other characteristics of victims of crime (victims of crime), to answer the question of why, by virtue of any emotional, volitional, moral character, a socially conditioned orientation man was injured;

2) The relationship linking the offender and the victim (the victim), to answer the question to what extent these relations are important for the creation of prerequisites for the crime, how they affect the eyeballs crimes, the motives of the criminal activities;

3) the situation that preceded the crime, as well as the situation directly crimes to answer the question, in these situations, in cooperation with the criminal behavior of criminological significantly manifested behavior (action or inaction) of the victim (the victim);

4) of post-behavior of the victim (the victim), to answer the question that he is making to restore their rights, whether recourse to the protection of law enforcement agencies, courts, prevents or helps them in establishing the truth; a system of preventive measures, which take into account and are used as the protective capabilities of potential victims, as well as the real victims;

5) way possible ways of compensation for the harm the crime in the first place of physical rehabilitation of the victim (the victim).

KV studying various problems, communication nnye an injury. It primarily refers to the personal qualities and behavior of victims, to a greater or lesser extent the determining criminal acts caused the harm, in situations fraught with the danger of such damage.