2009 Issue №9

The article considers the peculiar problems of criminological characteristics of justifiable defence and excessive defence situations. The author analyses and compares objective criminological characteristics of the situations of justifiable and excessive defence. The article is based on the legislation of the Russian Federation and empirical research conducted by the author.

The article examines the errors and their prevention by the formation of the interrogatee’s situational attitude in the process of communicative interaction with the investigator in the course of an interrogation.