History of the origin of vandalism and its essence
This article provides a retrospective analysis of the problem of the origin of vandalism as a crime, examines the motives for the manifestations of destructive deviant behavior of people in the form of vandalistic acts and their objective signs through the prism of chronological periods in the history of mankind, described in Russian and foreign scientific studies. When determining the specifics of the formation and essence of vandalism, it should be emphasized that in the historical context, the ideas about this kind of antisocial behavior changed significantly depending on the era, morals, mores, level of development of people, their intellectual and spiritual values, religious beliefs and goal-setting (from the capture of some peoples by others, looting the territory of a certain state, to the self-realization of individual individuals as a person). The phenomenon of vandalism over the centuries in various states correlates with the historical and cultural characteristics of a particular country, their spiritual and value dominants, moral and ethical norms and ideology. The dynamics of the formation of ideas about vandalism and the committed acts of destruction of cultural values of peoples varied depending on the historical era and religious beliefs, from which the corpus delicti was always "based".