P. A. KABANOV,
Doctor of Law,
Associate Professor Nizhniy Novgorod Academy of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs,
Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

Objective: to describe and explain the structure of the modern Russian criminological political victimology as a special inter-sectoral criminological theory.

Methods: the research is based on the universal dialectic method of cognition of social reality.

Results: basing on the normative legal acts, scientific literature and law enforcement practice, the author proposes a concept of the structure of the modern Russian criminological political victimology as a special sphere of the Russian political criminology.

Scientific novelty: for the first time in the world victimology, the author proposes a new prospective scientific direction, studying the victims of political crimes and power abuses, comprising several special victimological theories in its structure.

Practical value: the author’s provisions allow to elaborate the complex system of measures for victimological rehabilitation and victimological prevention of crimes in the political sphere of social life.