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.