The issues of criminological and victimological security and the COVID-19-related quarantine measures
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https://doi.org/10.5055/jem.0694Keywords:
crimes, pandemic, public safety, strategy, victimological securityAbstract
The purpose of the study is to consider ways to counter threats in the criminal-legal plane from the perspective of victimology. At the same time, this study aims to justify the need to take comprehensive strategic measures that take into account the victimological threats that became characteristic precisely during the spread of the pandemic and the introduction of quarantine measures. The adoption of a document setting out strategic priorities for a comprehensive pandemic response implies the possibility of adapting it to potential threats of a similar nature. The existence of such a document implies the possibility of developing on its basis a set of narrower, algorithms of actions and measures to ensure the victimological security of citizens in the event of crisis situations due to the threat of pandemics. The research examines current challenges faced by Ukrainian legal system in matters of criminological and victimological security of society during quarantine measures related to COVID-19, against the background of foreign experience.
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