Law Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

The development of criminal personality’s criminalistic reference is one of the most important scientific tasks, due to the urgent needs of the investigative practice. This lead of character research of criminal covers the investigation process of criminal offence and requires the setting data that can be used by the investigator for the effective organization of investigation of crimes; advancement of investigative leads and planning the investigation; the choice of the optimal, political means of conducting of separate measures of investigation and measures of inquiry with a view to establish the objective truth during the investigation. The criminal identity is the person, who a wine has committed a socially dangerous act, forbidden by law in jeopardy. The moralpsychological qualities of criminal identity are in dialectical unity with its social properties and gestures. The specific features that characterize it, find their expression primarily in the behavior that precedes commission of a crime. The criminal personality, like any other person, is characterized by many different features. There are social ties (political, labor, common, family, etc.); moral-political qualities (ideology, focus, principles, interests); psychological properties and qualities (intelligence, volitional powers, emotional features, temperament); demographic and physical data (gender, age, health, biography, life experience, education, the merits and faults of the society, etc.). If we represent available in the literature and judicial-investigative practice information about a portrait of the typical criminal personality, who is committing violent crimes against sexual inviolability of minors, the features, which are characterized this portrait are as follows: this is a man from 18 to 30 years old, single, unemployed, has secondary or incomplete secondary education, previously unconvicted, a friend or close relative of the victim child, who has committed a crime in a condition of alcoholic intoxication and is characterized by the following moral and psychological qualities: rudeness often escalates into cruelty; cynicism and disrespect in relation to others; primitive views on relationship, reducing them to psychological act; the abuse of alcohol; the presence of pathologies in the psyche, which, as a rule, don’t exclude sanity.