FEATURES OF THE MECHANISM OF COMMITMENT OF MILITARY VIOLENT CRIMES RELATED TO ATROCYTICS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the features of the mechanism of
commission of military violent crimes related to atrocities. The specifics of the
motivation of military violent crimes with signs of atrocities are established, in
the structure of which politically conditioned, resentful motives dominate,
burdened by factors of dehumanization of representatives of the Ukrainian
nation, paternalism, collective traumas of Russians, ramified and constantly
stimulated effects of post-memory; the narrative of "de-satanization" of Ukrainians may take place in the motivational structure of individual
manifestations of atrocities at the level of legitimization of criminal behavior,
giving it the halo of "righteous anger", "God-pleasing cause". A criminological
specification of the results of psychological experiments by S. Milgram and F.
Zimbardo was carried out in order to study the peculiarities of the impact of a
criminogenic situation on a combatant as a factor in his commission of a violent
war crime with signs of atrocities. The role of the victim in the commission of the
studied category of crimes was characterized.