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Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

  • Received 14.06.2026,
  • Revised 01.09.2026,
  • Accepted 29.09.2026
  • Published 02.10.2026
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Vol. 31, No. 3, 2026
  • antisocial behaviour; victimology; victimogenic factors; victimological behaviour; victims of crime; behaviour modelling
  • https://doi.org/10.63341/naia- herald/3.2026.09
  • Pages 9-23

The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to deepen the scientific understanding of the patterns of the formation and implementation of victimisation in modern conditions as a result of the increasing diversity of victimogenic factors, the complication of victimisation mechanisms, the emergence of new forms of unlawful encroachments and the transformation of social, economic, informational and security processes, and the actualisation of the need to improve the methodological tools for the study of victimological phenomena. The purpose of the study was a comprehensive theoretical and methodological analysis of the main approaches to victimological modelling, the generalisation of existing concepts of its understanding and the systematisation of the main determinants of victimisation. The methodological basis of the study was a complex of general scientific and special scientific methods, in particular, such methods as dialectical, systemic, method of analysis and synthesis, generalisation, comparative, structural-functional, formal-logical, classification. The article provided a theoretical analysis of the main approaches to victimological modelling as an important direction of research into the patterns of formation and implementation of victimisation, identifying connections between offenses and the behaviour of their victims. The conceptual apparatus of modern victimology was highlighted as the initial element of the theory of victimological modelling, its essence, structure, functions and significance for the scientific knowledge of victimisation processes. Special attention was paid to the definition and systematisation of the determinants of victimisation, which were considered as interrelated and mutually conditioned victimogenic phenomena and processes that created conditions for the implementation of victim behaviour and the emergence of victimogenic situations. The prospects of victimological modelling as a methodological basis for predicting victimisation, identifying victimogenic factors and developing measures to prevent it were determined. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of using the systematised determinants of victimisation and the principles of victimological modeling to predict victimogenic risks, improve their assessment methods, and develop evidence-based measures to prevent victimisation

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