PECULIARITIES OF COUNTERACTING PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION BY THE CRIMINAL POLICE UNITS OF THE NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF COMMITTING FRAUD IN MARTIAL LAW CONDITIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of aspects of psychological impact on the victim through manipulation; peculiarities of establishing the limits of legal culpability of a fraudster in manipulation as a type and method of committing fraud committed under martial law; the concept and essence of the term manipulation. Taking into account the practical experience gained, the author highlights the shortcomings in the issue of countering manipulation during fraud by the criminal investigation officers of the criminal police units of the National Police of Ukraine, and forms a vision of possible, legally correct “steps” to counter fraud in terms of improving the proportion of solving criminal offenses, including those of previous years (unsolved crimes). The author analyzes the state of scientific research on the psychological impact of a fraudster on a victim through manipulation. The author analyzes empirical data from departmental reporting and obtains a mathematical basis in terms of registered (detected), solved and unsolved criminal offenses of fraud, and emphasizes that a significant part of the subjects who committed criminal offenses of fraud and were detected are women. The author identifies the “arsenal of means” and methods of criminal manipulation of the victim's consciousness and behavior used by fraudsters in committing a criminal offense. The author examines the structural component of a fraudster's personality, identifies the guidelines and motives of fraudulent activity, and clarifies the meaning of psychological terms: attitude and personality. It is concluded that in the issue of combating fraud as a type of criminal offense, the criminal investigation officers of the criminal police of the National Police of Ukraine should take into account the peculiarities of psychological influence on the victim through manipulation, for the most effective counteraction to the outlined type of criminal offense.