Optimisation of measures of crime victims' data recording

With a view of development of effective preventive maintenance of crimes, calculation of "price" of the criminality includes the damage to the victim and the state and measure and cost of its indemnification. Indemnification is paid not only to the direct victim, but also to the state in the form of expenses on law-enforcement activity. Indemnification practice is also necessary for criminology theories perfection for the need of authentic statistics. The statistical recording existing in our country is mainly directed at revealingthe quantity of crimes and criminals that leads to some one-sided conclusions. This uncertainty does not allow applying a vast statistical material to solving victimology problems, more effective preventive measures. So far we can approximately count the discrepancy of the registered and actual crime rates, and the quantity of official victims of crimes. According to the clause "On the uniform procedure for registration of criminal cases and the recording of crimes", the data on persons who are close relatives recognized as victims in a criminal case of a crime which led to death of a person are not subject to recording. Latent victim are not considered as well.

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