LATENT VICTIMIZATION OF THE POPULATION: SEPARATE METHODS OF ITS DETECTION
Authors: Narozhna O. V. 
Published: November 2022

The article is devoted to the topic of studying methods that effectively investigate the problem of  latent victimization of the population of the state. A  latent victim is a person who has actually suffered  from a crime, but for certain reasons this fact  remained hidden from official records.
Therefore, latent victims should also include victims who are victims of the law gave the right to choose  whether or not to report the crime that occurred  (cases of the so-called private prosecution). It is also  important to distinguish cases where the status of  the victim is a person attributes to himself without sufficient grounds and, conversely, when he imposes himself on her.
Hence, the role of the victim can be real and  imaginary (meaning her self-esteem). The selection  of personified and collective roles. Although  victimology is primarily a study specific victims, but one should not ignore the fact that it is often  precisely from group behavior depends on the  process of becoming a victim as a group of persons,  as well as its individual members. The problem of  identifying and classifying victims of crimes and, to  an even greater extent, them typology is too  complicated. After all, anyone can be a victim of a  crime a person from the moment of his birth until his death. Extreme heterogeneity object creates  difficulties for victimological classification because it  exists a large number of qualifying signs that can be  placed in it basis But at the same time, it is necessary to comply with one basic requirement – victimological classification should reflect the genetic relationship between the behavior of the victim, on the one hand, and the actions of the criminal before  and during the commission crime, on the other  hand. This connection can be followed in various  aspects: social, biological, socio-psychological, moral, etc.
One of the traditional victimological classifications is based on criteria very close to daily practice (a victim  of intentional or reckless crimes, guilty or innocent,  premeditated or not, accidental or accomplice  victim). But these criteria do not satisfy the needs  science and practice, as they do not reveal the real  diversity of interaction potential victim and criminal. Therefore, it cannot be claimed that there is no  victimhood outside of crime. In reality it is not so. A person can possess a number of properties and  qualities the behavior can be provocative, that is, it  will be clearly victimized, but not it will inevitably  cause a wrongful reaction from others and she will  become a victim crime. Studying the victim in various aspects and his role in the genesis of the crime, criminal victimology proceeds from the fact that a  person’s behavior is his own nature can be not only  criminal, but also reckless, risky, frivolous, loose,  sometimes provocative, therefore, dangerous for  herself, which naturally increases her susceptibility to criminal encroachments. In this regard, the  characteristics of a person acquire additional importance: age, gender, social status, performed social roles, profession, readiness to act in a critical  situation in a certain way, as well as the  environment, specific situation, behavior of third  parties, etc.
Combination of objective and subjective factors and  their interaction affects the ability of one or another person to become a victim of a crime.