Abstract
The article deals with the psychological characteristics of minors’ victim behavior that led to the differentoffenses. Victimization is understood as a set of properties of the person, specified by the complex of social,psychological and biophysical conditions, conducive to the subject’s maladaptive style of response, resulting indamage to his physical or emotional-mental health. It is proposed victimological classification of the maingroups of crimes committed by minors and its causes. The results of psychological support of colonies’ residentsand victimological circumstances of their victim behavior before their isolation from society were described.
Highlights
In recent years, psychological and criminological researches have started to pay more attention to the role of the victim in the solving and investigation of crimes
The article deals with the psychological characteristics of minors’ victim behavior that led to the different offenses
Frank considers “victim behavior” through the category of victimization, emphasizing that all types of victimization exist in two forms: potential and realized
Summary
Psychological and criminological researches have started to pay more attention to the role of the victim in the solving and investigation of crimes. Frank considers “victim behavior” through the category of victimization, emphasizing that all types of victimization exist in two forms: potential and realized. Hentig regarding the participation of victim in the initiation and implementation of tort: “Crime is an individual psychopathological phenomenon, the victim of a crime should not be considered as passive object, because he is an active subject of criminalization” (Schneider, 1994). The author “comprehensively showed how even the victim's behavior can explain one or another criminal act The latter does not raise any doubts in relation to many cases of sexual crimes, obtaining money under false pretenses, and even murder and rape” (Frank, 1977). At the present stage the study of the psychological aspects of victim behavior is carried out on two main levels: as a social phenomenon and as an individual psychological characteristic of a person with his victimological activity
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