VICTIMOLOGY AND CYBERCRIME IN RUSSIA
The article notes that in most of the crimes committed, the reason was the user's negligent attitude to their personal data online. The role of the victim in cybercrime is difficult to overestimate. An analysis of the reasons why certain individuals become victims of cybercrime is conducted in order to prevent them from committing them. The doctrine of the victim of crime is analyzed in terms of the behavior of various kinds of persons affected by crime. Attention is paid to the analysis of the behavior of the person who commits acts in the information space through computer systems. The issue of correlation of victimology with other sciences is debatable. The authors dwell on this debate and express their point of view. As part of the research and in order to find out the changes that have occurred over a decade and to find out the reasons why individuals become victims of crime, we conducted a survey among students at South Ural State University. One hundred people took part in the survey. The average age of those surveyed ranged from 17 to 24 years old.