Modern Methods of Criminological Study of the Personality of Selfish Criminals: A Critical Review and Comparative Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.57125/FEL.2023.12.25.5Keywords:
personality of a mercenary-violent criminal, determination of mercenary-violent crime, criminal behaviour, criminogenic-oriented consciousness, criminologyAbstract
The study’s relevance lies in the fact that the main reason for the impact of all the negative factors observed in society and generating mercenary crimes is the social maladjustment of the offender's personality. This is the quality of his socialisation, in which he acquires negative experiences, leading to his unlawful acts in the future. In the process of such "adaptation" to the environment, not without the direct "participation" of negative aspects of the micro-level, the mercenary-violent orientation of the offender's personality is formed. The purpose of the study is to analyse the processes and phenomena occurring in society and leading to the formation of the main subjective cause of criminal behaviour - the criminogenic-oriented consciousness and psychology of the offender to use violence against another person's personality to satisfy their selfish needs. As part of the study, a bibliometric analysis of contemporary methods in criminological research on the personality of selfish criminals was conducted based on the PRISMA approach. The literature search was performed on the Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, and PubMed databases, and 61 relevant scientific papers were selected after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. The main results of the study are the argumentation of the position that if we follow dialectical concepts in reflecting the picture of the development of social life, the shortcomings and miscalculations of the macro level of social life can act as determinants of specific criminal manifestations, find their continuation and growth in phenomena attributed to the micro level of personality socialisation. The study's main conclusions are that the dynamic relationship and interdependence of the conditions of life and social situation of a person's development, which generally affect their adaptation to the environment, are considered essential in determining the determinants of offences. The further direction of scientific research is to study the personality of a mercenary criminal from the perspective of criminology and also to make a criminological analysis of the personal characteristics of a mercenary criminal.
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