Motives for Committing Criminal Offenses Related to Domestic Violence

Abstract

Topicality. Any human activity is characterized by the desire to achieve certain goals, which in turn motivates him to perform certain actions in ways and means that are achievable and available to this person. Unfortunately, not everyone chooses a path without violence in order to achieve their goal, some actions are also motivated by illegal actions and colored by negative emotions, which eventually turn into more aggressive actions, as a result of which one person takes another person’s life. The purpose of the article is to determine and unify the motives for committing criminal offenses related to domestic violence, the understanding of which contributes not only to understanding the mental state of a person at the time of the crime, but also allows to identify conditions of wrongdoing, determine the form of guilt and public danger. , in turn, will assist the investigator in determining the tactics of obtaining verbal information, tactics of investigative (investigative actions), etc. The methodological basis of the article is general scientific methods of cognition, such as analysis and synthesis, which allowed to combine into groups the motives identified by scientists from different countries, with different social levels and traditions. Research results. The article analyzes the research of domestic scientists and researchers in the field of combating domestic violence from Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, countries where there is zero tolerance for this type of violence.Based on these studies, it became possible to unify the motives of criminal offenses related to domestic violence, which is one of the elements of the forensic characteristics of the methodology of investigation of criminal offenses related to domestic violence. The scientific novelty is that the article analyzes and summarizes in the relevant groups the motives for committing criminal offenses related to domestic violence, which are united by a certain incentive. In turn, the forensic significance of the classification of motives for committing these criminal offenses, which is that the motive has correlations with such elements of forensic characteristics as the identity of the offender and the victim, the method of commission and concealment, the trace picture. The practical significance of the article is that understanding the motives for committing a criminal offense allows the investigator to distinguish the offender from the circle of suspects, to establish the intentional nature of actions, to correctly describe the event, to determine the instrument of the crime, place and time of such offense.

Keywords: criminal offense; domestic violence; forensic classification; motive; investigation.