The ratio of the victim's identity and the perpetrator's identity in criminal offenses related to domestic violence

Abstract

The article examined the correlation of such elements of criminal characteristics as a perpetrator’s identity and victim’s identity, classified criminal offenses related to domestic violence based on the understanding of the peculiarities of the process of interrelation between the offender and the victim, stages of violence and the level of family relations. The purpose of the research is to determine the individual characteristics of the offender and the victim, as well as the interdependency of such characteristics, which are crucial for the selection of investigative tactics and directions of investigation of criminal offenses connected with domestic violence. To achieve this goal, general scientific methods are used. There are method of analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, analogy and modeling. Also for the description of legal phenomenon, substantiation of legality of behavior of the subjects of violation and grouping of models of behavior of the offender and victim is a special-legal method. The specific sociological method is used to summarize available scientific research and results of the survey, questionnaire and interview of practical workers. The scientific novelty of the research is that due to scientific work and the given activity of subdivisions of the National Police of Ukraine individual peculiarities of persons who are approaching domestic violence are studied, such persons are classified according to their family status, gender, age. The study also identifies the peculiarities and stages of the relationship between the offender and the victim in criminal offenses related to domestic violence. A criminal classification of criminal offenses related to domestic violence was carried out on the basis of a summary of the data on the individual of the offender and the victim