The person of the criminal

The identity of the offender is a very specific concept applied in the context of criminology, which makes it possible to describe the character traits, personal and social characteristics of a person inclined to commit various legal and administrative violations.

The structure of the perpetrator's personality consists of a number of characteristics that affect the commission of unlawful actions. The substructures include:

1. Biophysiological signs that make up the personality of a criminal are the characteristics of his physiological constitution, nervous system, current state of health, etc. This factor is investigated in connection with the fact that personal characteristics are often determined genetically. Hereditary attributes also influence the specificity of the education of the individual, his interaction with the environment and a number of other indicators.

2. Socio-demographic features. They include indicators such as age, sex, social and marital status, level of education, occupation, national characteristics and other characteristics. The data possessed by criminology indicate that, for example, the majority of criminals whose fists are causing serious bodily harm are men, while women more often resort to committing offenses on mercenary basis. The level of education affects the type of crime committed: economic and financial violations are most often committed by people with higher education, while thefts, hooliganism, vandalism, robberies and the like are individuals whose level of education is much lower.

3. Moral and psychological characteristics that determine the identity of the criminal in criminology, includes the features of the worldview of the individual, values, beliefs and life orientation.

A worldview position as defines the purposefulness and perseverance of the individual in achieving the intended, and in general affects the set of habits and the system of views of the person. It is believed that the individual becomes an individual only when a system of values and his own attitude to public order is formed, as well as the ability to take responsibility for his decisions and actions on himself.

In the context of this point, it is especially necessary to study such characteristics as the prevailing (or, conversely, unformed) attitude toward various values, both moral and social, adopted in a given society. It is, first of all, the attitude to the family, work, development, social communication , etc. In addition, it is necessary to evaluate and classify the significance of social claims and needs (socially useful / harmful, justified / unjustifiable), followed by a study of the nature and method of meeting goals (legal, legal, illegal, socially (without) dangerous).

4. Finally, the final characteristics that reveal the concept of a criminal's personality are his intellectual, emotional and volitional properties.

The first include life experience, narrowness and breadth of knowledge, interests, aspirations, the amount of knowledge, the level of intellectual development and the like.

Under the emotional characteristics of the individual is understood the balance, mobility and strength of the course of nervous processes and emotional excitability, the principles associated with responding to changes external or internal.

Finally, strong-willed properties are the ability to make and implement decisions aimed at achieving the goal, regulating activities within the framework of the decision, perseverance and a clear direction of action, accompanied by a certain flexibility.

The person of the criminal, considered in the context of the described points, is distinguished by mercenary motives, disparaging attitude to life, health of another person, material benefits, antisocial attitude to the accepted norms and rules of behavior, irresponsible attitude to duties.