Authors: Sidorova I. V.
Citation: Sidorova I. V. Insult as a kind of psychic violence. Psychopedagogy in Law Enforcement. No 1(68). 2017. Pp. 28–32. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2017-11007.
Для цитирования: Сидорова И. В. Оскорбление как разновидность психического насилия // Психопедагогика в правоохранительных органах. 2017. № 1(68). С. 28–32. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2017-11007.
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Abstract
The basis of objective element of an insult is an act of disparagement (his negative assessment) in one of three possible forms: physical influence on the victim, a word, a gesture. An insult as the physical element of an offence should be regarded completed from the onset of a socially dangerous consequence, that is of emotional harm caused to a victim by disparagement. From psychological perspective harm caused by an insult is sustained by the victim as a negative emotional state (resentment). Being harmful for a psychic health it has some nuances peculiar for a psychological state of a person and is intimately connected in the process of an insult with a moral injury. Obscene words as a means of disparagement must be considered an administrative offence and a sufficient ground to estimate obscene character of an insult. Science-based forensic linguistic examination and psychological assessment of an insult are likely to reduce miscarriages of justice.
Keywords: insult, disparagement, resentment, psychic violence, emotional and moral injury, forensic linguistic examination, psychological assessment.