Aukos - vaiko ir nusikaltėlio inversija: viktimologinė analizė
Victims - the Inversion of a Child and Offender: Victimological Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the conception of inversion of victim and offender1, defines certain kinds, types and classifications of inversion. The author analyses the inversion of victim-child and offender from the perspective of victimology. The author presents an accumulative and cyclical inversion and victimological analysis of victim-child and offender in a broader sense, refer¬ring to the latest victimological research, statistics, de¬scribing the scope of research. The sciences of criminology and victimology, contemporary selective researches have proved that there is no inborn offender, just like there is no inborn victim of crime. Therefore, it is crucial that threshold of the development of inversion of victim-offender is detected on time that it is eradicated or at least its negative consequences are minimized. The aim of this article: to present the inversion of victim-child and offender as a dynamic phenomenon, as a result of interaction between the processes of criminalization and victimization2. The inversion of victim and offender - is a term of the science of victimology, defining a much broader context, where a victim becomes an offender or an offender becomes a victim than it is assumed in the positivist law. The definition of different forms of inversions is a relative subject, because a single form of exchange or transposition of roles of victim and offender, the victimic situation itself, respective circumstances may change, transform, and altogether create new inversion processes or forms of their mixed nature. Along with the analysis of inversion of crime victim-child and offender, we will take a deeper insight into several kinds of inversion, i.e. accumulative and cyclical inversion of victim-child and offender. Accumulative inversion — are cases of inversion of victim and offender, when the role exchange is extensive and of accumulative nature, oftentimes a long-term process, having different stages of development. In victimological literature we often analyze cases, when children are abused by their parents or caregivers, and later, as research shows, become offenders themselves.

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