MAYOROV Andrey Vladimirovich, Cand. Sc. Law, Associate Professor, head of the Department of State, Civil, and Legal Disciplines of the Faculty of Law Enforcement Training of the South Ural State University (National Research University); Associate professor of the Department of Legal Discipline of the Ozersk branch of the South Ural State University (National Research University). Office 210, Building 100, Artilleryskaya Str., 454081, Chelyabinsk. E-mail: AB_Majorov@mail.ru

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The article deals with the terminology used in the legislation of the Russian Federation, in the literature, and law enforcement practice in determining a person who has been injured or inflicted harm as a result of criminal offense. A concept of the victim of the crime used in the rules of criminal law and criminal procedural law is analyzed. The author also identifies certain legal application problems of the analyzed regulations, as well as the question of the need of separation of substantive and procedural concepts of the victim on the legislative level. The author gives his viewpoint on the issue.

a victim, an injured person, a victim of a crime, victimology, signs of a victim, a legal concept.