PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PROFESSIONAL CRIMINALS AND RECIDIVISTS

Abstract

In modern legal reality, an antisocial act of a person that encroaches on the relations that have developed in society and poses a danger to social development, ie a crime, becomes a way of life for a certain category of persons. As in any activity, the constant honing of their skills contributes to the development of professional qualities, and in criminal activity there is the concept of «professional criminals» who for several years master criminal skills, improve the way of committing a crime and become professionals in their socially dangerous sphere. Undoubtedly, such a course of events and the existence of such persons undermines public security and control over the state-legal and social reality, and this is the relevance of this research topic. The study of the psychological characteristics of such persons is a very important component in preventing and counteracting criminals. From the point of view of psychology, a professional criminal is a recidivist, ie a persistent criminal, accustomed to a socially dangerous form of behavior. The criminal behavior of a recidivist shows the peculiarities of the interaction of his conscious and subconscious mechanisms of self-regulation.