Review of a tutorial by P. A. Kabanov, R. R. Magizov “Criminological reflections оn victimology”

Abstract

Objective: to evaluate the authors’ complex system of views on the victimological aspect of modern criminology through the prism of critical perception of the reviewer.Methods: dialectic method and systemic (and synergetic, extinguished from it) approaches as a universal methodological basis for research and general scientific methods of analytical study of the work (analysis and synthesis, generalization, comparison, abstraction, modeling, etc.).Results: the article presents an analytical review of the author’s research of the branch criminological theory addressed to the study of the crime victim with an emphasis on certain key aspects. The victim of crime is interpreted as a physical or legal person who, as a result of a crime, suffered direct or indirect physical, material (property) or moral harm or their business (professional) and/or political reputation was undermined. In the work, the notion of a victim refers to a narrower circle of individuals, that is, only those who suffered the harm directly caused by a crime. The review notes the relevance of the work, meeting the needs of modern criminological science and practice, and the scientific and practical importance of the material systematized by the authors, providing important scientific ideas in the major fields or promising directions of developing victimology as a branch of criminology. The article assesses the provisions on victim as the main category of victimology, classification of victims, personal and non-personal factors of victimization, as well as the priority areas in which the authors see the development of criminological victimology. Corrections of definitions of some basic concepts, new aspects of the investigated problem are offered. Scientific novelty: the paper presents for the first time a problematic view of victimology as one of the main aspects of criminological science and its promising areas of scientific research.Practical significance: the main provisions and conclusions of the article can be used in scientific, pedagogical and law enforcement activities in the consideration and study of issues related to the improvement of crime prevention, especially law enforcement activity, and the relevant branch of criminological science.

Keywords

• виктимология
• виктимогенность
• виктимность
• виктимологическая профилактика
• жертва преступления
• ситуация
• защита
• классификация
• фактор
• виктимологическое воздействие
• виктимологическое направление