Victimological prevention of serial crimes

The development of crime prevention as well as the prevention of individual crimes is the result and an indicator of the effectiveness of all studies of such complex phenomenon as crime. In the structure of crime, the authors single out the analysis of such a resonant group of crimes as serial crimes (murders, rapes, abductions, explosions and arson). The results of the study were optimal victimological models of interaction between the serial offender and his victim. The model under consideration is based on the study of the biographies and materials of criminal cases of 150 serial offenders. Since the identity of the victim is often anonymized in the vast majority of serial crimes, prima facie it may seem appropriate to speak only of a random victim. But this is only prima facie. Indeed, a serial crime is aimed at an impersonal person in the mind of the criminal, but it must be taken into account that in the time of a criminal event the interaction between the perpetrator, and the victim of the crime can be represented by dissimilar stages. For example, the immediate initial episode of the crime series is an attack, arson, kidnapping. Then comes the development when the captured victim interacts with the perpetrator either in a lengthy conversation or in the form of hurting the victim in the form of beating or torture. In the second stage, we can already speak about the expectable victims of the episode of the series of crimes, and therefore about victimological prevention. Exposure on "visionaries" has a low victimological potential. The best tactic of interacting with the "missionary" is to mislead about one's harmlessness by showing the elements of inadequacy and actions to lower the aesthetics of the victim's image. The optimal tactic of interaction with the "tyrant" is playing the role of the unfortunate person, who since childhood "falls" into troubles; playing the role of a man already broken by the event of the crime. The optimal tactic of interaction with the "hedonist" is an attempt to escape, actively creating noise to attract others. In general, victims of serial crimes correspond to random victims, but in the scenario's course of the episode, the victim tends to show the characteristics of victimization in the form of undaptation, disadaptation, levity or aggressiveness. What is new is the conclusion that each type of serial offender gravitates to one of these types of victimhood. Thus, victims of a serial criminal of the type of a "visionary" are characterized at the group level by random victimization, of a "missionary" type -by unaadaptive victimization, of a "tyrant" type - by disadaptive victimization and of the type "hedonist" -by frivolous victimization.

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