Prerequisites for the effectiveness of interrogation of victims of robbery attacks on citizens’ homes with the use of weapons

Abstract

Currently, the problem of violations of property rights involving the seizure of other people’s property and breaking into people’s homes with weapons is becoming more acute. Poor investigation of these cases causes a public outcry. Victims are the ones who have the best information about the incident, so it is important to study the prerequisites for interrogating the injured party. The research aims to build a structure of consistently logical, generalised questions for interrogating victims of robberies involving the use of weapons. The methods used are analytical, generalisation, analogy, and synthesis. The general, guiding questions for the interrogation of victims during the investigation of robberies involving weapons are formulated in the study. Such questions are formulated considering the victim’s condition after a robbery attack on a home using weapons, as well as the results of studying the peculiarities of committing these crimes, establishing, and summarising their circumstances. These aspects allow the investigator to obtain holistic, logically connected information about the crime to build a system of evidence. The general, orientation questions for interrogating victims during the investigation of robbery attacks on citizens’ homes with the use of weapons are systematised, divided into types, grouped and summarised, so that it is more convenient for investigators to study and use them during the investigation of such criminal offences for a more effective reproduction of the sequence and integrity of the event, as well as for obtaining complete and reliable testimony during the interrogation of the victim. The author identifies the consequences of using incorrectly formulated questions to the victim by the investigator during interrogation, and the danger of using questions which are not prepared for the relevant criminal offence is clarified. The practical value of the work lies in the fact that the results of scientific research will contribute to the improvement of interrogation of a victim of robbery with weapons