Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The article attempts to analyze the elements of the mechanism of individual criminal behavior taking into account the victimological components of the model of the criminal encroachment. A number of links of the mechanism of individual victim behavior are considered which are criminological significant for certain victimal situations. Proposed stages of victimological forecasting. According to the results of our study, it has been determined that, in many cases leading to a criminal offense, the most important circumstance is the behavior of the victim, namely the perpetrator and the victim of the crime, as it is paradoxical, interact and sometimes communicate directly for a long period of time. The victim of crime thus makes a significant contribution to the attack against her. In addition, the interaction of the offender and the victim under certain circumstances leads to mutual encounters, before the inversion of the status of «offender», «victim», to combining in one person two social and criminological, and sometimes criminal, procedural roles that are opposite to one another («criminal» – «victim», «defendant» – «victim»). This contributes to the emergence of a situation that greatly raises the problem of the victim of crime, his fault and responsibility, the problem of the consequences of the implementation of potential victimization. As the results of this study show, the nature and effects of forming a person play a major role in the genesis of victim behavior. It is proved that neither the biological qualities of a person, nor the short-term, and sometimes the occasional influence of the external situation, but the whole life course of the individual determines the content of most of his actions. Moreover, the social and psychological qualities of the person: her political, moral and other views, skills and habits, peculiarities of behavior and character – are formed throughout the life of the person as a result of interaction with the environment.