Review of a book “Kabanov, P. A., Magizov, R. R. Criminological victimology: tutorial. Kazan: Kazan University Publishers, 2018. 118 p.”

Abstract

Objective: full and objective evaluation of a tutorial “Criminological victimology” by P. A. Kabanov and R. R. Magizov, published in 2018 at Kazan Federal University.Methods: dialectical approach to cognition of social phenomena, allowing to analyze them in the historical development and functioning in the context of a set of objective and subjective factors, which determined the choice of the following research methods: formal-legal, comparative-legal, etc.Results: the presented concept of modern criminological victimology as an academic discipline is analyzed, as well as its structure, relationships with other disciplines, and the main trends and prospects of its development. It is emphasized that the publication is undoubtedly useful, for those who study the criminal law direction of jurisprudence, first of all, because, as the authors rightly point out, modern criminological victimology is an extremely dynamic interdisciplinary field of knowledge, in respect of which a single approach in understanding its basic categories has not yet been developed. The reviewers’ views on the status, structure, subject of criminological victimology as a branch of criminological science are presented. The conclusions obtained by the authors as a result of their research are evaluated, the contradictions between the authors’ research results and the tutorial content are revealed.Scientific novelty: for the first time the tutorial by P. A. Kabanov and R. R. Magizov “Criminological victimology” is evaluated; its main advantages and the provisions requiring additional scientific study are revealed. The paper describes the current state of Russian criminological victimology as an academic discipline in the sphere of jurisprudence and outlines the prospects of its conceptual development. A conclusion is made about the significant contribution of the authors to the development of the Russian legal doctrine.Practical significance: the reviewers concluded that the tutorial by P. A. Kabanov and R. R. Magizov can be used by researchers, professors of law schools and faculties, practicing lawyers, representatives of law enforcement agencies and the judicial system, undergraduate and graduate students.

Keywords

• review
• jurisprudence
• criminology
• victimology
• criminological victimology
• victim
• victimism
• tutorial