Baranov M.S. Correlation of the notions “suffered”, “aggrieved person” and “victim of crime”

Abstract: The subject of the research is the range of legal and organizational problems of consideration of the notion of a person, suffered from some damage, and its legitimation according to the current criminal and penal legislation. The author carries out theoretical and legal analysis of the notions “suffered”, “aggrieved person” and “victim of crime”. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the interpretation and legal regulation of these categories. The main attention is paid to the development of the classification criteria for the abovementioned legal categories in the science and law-enforcement practice. The methodology includes the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional legal methods (formal-logical) and the methods of special sociological research (the statistical methods, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that the notions “suffered”, “aggrieved person” and “victim of crime” are not revealed in the current legislation consistently enough. Therefore, it is necessary to develop criminal and administrative legislation regarding legitimation of these categories. The author draws attention to this problem and offers the ways of differentiation of these categories in the Russian law. 

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