Russian Journal of Economics and Law (Mar 2015)
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL POLITICAL VICTIMOLOGY: NOTION, OBJECT AND PROSPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT
Abstract
Objective: to describe and explain the structure of the modern Russian criminological political victimology as a special inter-sectoral criminological theory. Methods: the research is based on the universal dialectic method of cognition of social reality. Results: basing on the normative legal acts, scientific literature and law enforcement practice, the author proposes a concept of the structure of the modern Russian criminological political victimology as a special sphere of the Russian political criminology. Scientific novelty: for the first time in the world victimology, the author proposes a new prospective scientific direction, studying the victims of political crimes and power abuses, comprising several special victimological theories in its structure. Practical value: the author’s provisions allow to elaborate the complex system of measures for victimological rehabilitation and victimological prevention of crimes in the political sphere of social life.