V nastoyashchey monografii issleduyutsya: teoreticheskie osnovy kriminologicheskogo ucheniya o zhertve prestupleniya, tendentsii ego razvitiya, sostoyanie sotsial"noy i pravovoy zashchity zhertv prestupleniy v Rossii, gde oboznacheny problemy deystvuyushchego zakonodatel"stva, deyatel"nosti pravookhranitel"nykh organov, obshchestvennykh organizatsiy, problemy pravovogo statusa zhertvy, predlagayutsya kontseptual"nye podkhody k sovershenstvovaniyu zakonodatel"stva i ego primeneniya v deyatel"nosti pravookhranitel"nykh organov s uchetom sovremennoy viktimologicheskoy doktriny. Monografiya prednaznachena dlya nauchnykh i prakticheskiy rabotnikov, prepodavateley, aspirantov (ad"yunktov), studentov (kursantov, slushateley) yuridicheskikh vuzov.