Victimogenic behavior of an underage victims in the mechanism of committing an intra-family crime

The official criminal statistics on criminal assaults against children are shown . Violent and mercenary specifics of intra-family crime of the given category are reflected . The features of victimogenic behavior of a child in the family are presented . Legal categories such as “the mechanism of committing a crime”, “victim act”, “the mechanism of victim act” and “the composition of victim act (behavior)” are considered . The considered legal categories are interpreted in the light of family relations in which a child becomes a victim of criminal assault . The concept of “victim act of a child in the family” is revealed, the elements of the composition of a victim act are investigated, namely: object, objective side, subject and subjective side . The positions of scientists on the classification of conflict situations associated with increased victimization of victims are reflected .