Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The methodological basis of criminological victimology is the theory of knowledge and the general theory of criminology and victimology. Methodological principles can be considered the victim of a crime, it viktymohenni determinants of the phenomenon of social and psychological in constant interaction and development. This methodological approach is crucial in implementing the principles of victimological general crime prevention and prevention of certain types of crime in particular. The principle of dialectical development as one of the most important principles of knowledge gives the victims the opportunity to explore the causes and conditions that lead to higher levels of victimization as a social phenomenon and changes in socio-economic development that affect these processes. Other philosophical laws and categories play the most important role in criminological victimology. In particular, based on general philosophical law relationship and interdependence of the phenomena of nature and society, it can be argued that the victim can not be studied in isolation, outside its relationship with other social processes. The method of systematic approach is actively used in criminological victimology. It allows to explore the object in the unity of a significant number of interacting elements, and the quality of the object to determine not so much a set of its constituent elements, as the nature of the interaction between them. Therefore, it is impossible to give an adequate assessment of criminological crime until details are researched all internal communications and circumstances which, taken together, created the conditions commit one way or another influenced criminal behavior, criminals formed a motivational readiness to illegal actions. Scientific methods of structural and functional analysis provides an opportunity to explore the limits of criminal manifestations through the effective application of victimological prevention, which in conjunction with other elements constitute a coherent system of measures to prevent certain crimes and crime in general.