Victimologic prevention of violent crimes against helpless victims in law enforcement activity: issues and solutions

The article defines the core aspects of the activity of law enforcement agencies through victimologic prevention of violent criminal infringements, committed against persons in a helpless state as well as the paper presents key recommendations for practitioners to reduce victimization of the victims, since there is currently no specific program for law enforcement officers on interaction with this category of victims. At the moment any prescribed by the legislation crime can be committed against a helpless victim, which would impacted to life, health, dignity of a person, to personal ownership of citizens, as well as certain crimes against the public order and soldering, therewith the scientific-technical progress and the development of social relations, cataclysms which are shattering our country and they are bringing to life the new, not previously practiced forms of criminal expressions, connecting with intentional bringing of the victim to a helpless state, either using already existing helpless state of the victim. In addition, in legal science there is no clear and single conception as "helpless state of the victim", which has a criminal-legal and victimologic significance; criteria for its evaluation are not defined; specific recommendations are not fully developed for the classification of crimes, committed against helpless victims, which could provide substantial assistance to law enforcement officers when investigating this category of cases; psychological characteristics of helpless victims are poorly studied; mechanisms of the influence of various sensory and psychical defects on the behavior of the victim are discovered by halves; issue of the victimization of helpless victims as a criminogenic factor, influencing the increase of degree of public danger of criminal infringements, is not fully studied, but without drawing on victimologic characteristics of violent crimes against helpless persons it is impossible to expect the some advances in the field of victimologic prevention of the criminal infringements in law enforcement activity.