The Nature of Sexual Violence: The Criminological Concept of Victimisation

Liana Spytska

Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine the conditions for the formation of victimisation and identify the features of the development of sexual perversions of an individual. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study was based on a qualitative combination of methods of structural and functional analysis of the causes of sexual pathologies in the human psyche and an analytical examination of the problem of restoring the mental state of people affected by sexual violence. The data obtained also identify the specific features of countering the consequences of sexual offences, in particular, approaches to supporting victims at the legal, psychological, medical, and socio-economic levels. In the course of the study, a
psychological experiment was conducted, which allowed substantiating the relationship between a person’s victimisation and their ability to sociopsychological adaptation in society after a trauma.

Keywords: Sexual Integrity; Rape; Psychopathology; Crime Prevention; Emotional Instability.