Victimological Characteristic of Crimes Against Participants Criminal Legal Proceedings

In  the  Russian  Federation  protection  of  participants  of  criminal  legal  proceedings  against  criminal  encroachments  is  actual and practical significant problem.  One of the features  of considered  socially  dangerous  acts  is  the  raised  extent  of  crime  victim victimization. Victimization of the personality,  that is process of her transformation into the victim, plays an important role in the mechanism of  individual  criminal  behavior. Involvement of persons to the sphere of criminal legal  proceedings  considerably  increases  level of their victimology  as  the  possession  of  the  specific  rights  and  duties  criminal  trial  participants  mark  out  from  a  circle  of  ordinary  citizens.  The given  article  is  devoted  to  research  of  the  victimological  characteristic  of  the  crimes  committed  concerning  participants  of  criminal  legal proceedings.  Methods.  In  this  work  the  method  of  sociological  poll  more  than  1300  participants  of  criminal  legal  proceedings  was  applied. Results.  From results of poll follows that among socially  dangerous acts  made  concerning  participants  of  criminal  legal  proceedings,  the most  widespread  are:  beating and causing varying severity  of harm  to health; threat of murder or causing heavy harm to health;  crimes against property; slander; infringement of life; hindrance to implementation of justice and production of preliminary investigation; bribery or coercion to evidence or evasion from  evidence or to the wrong translation.  Conclusion.  Based  on  the  conducted  research  the  author comes to the conclusion that the most  vulnerable from criminal  encroachments  are such participants  of criminal legal proceedings,  as  the witness,  the victim, the suspect  accused,  the defender, the witness.  At  the  same  time  crimes  concerning  representatives  of  the  victim, the civil respondent,  the civil claimant practically aren’t  committed.  The  received  results  should  be  considered  during  the  developing and improvement of the measures  directed  on considered  crimes  prevention.