The Involvement of the Person in Criminal Activity: Statement of the Problem

Abstract

The article is devoted to the necessity of identification of social and psychological mechanisms of involvement of the person in criminal activity in the conditions of anomy Russian society; factors of expansion of criminal self-realization areas of the person in anomy society are singled out; the main directions of psychological research of the criminal personality are described; ways of involvement in criminal activity (individual, group) are emphasized; manifestations of modification of modern criminal subculture (a combination of criminal and individual values, formation of specific organization culture, “interlacing” of lawful and criminal kinds of activity, an inclusiveness in society) are described; definitions of the concepts “involvement in criminal activity”, “self-involvement in criminal activity” are presented; components of the social and psychological mechanism of involvement of the person in criminal activity (genesis, process, result, factors and determinants) are described.

Authors: 
Romanova
Natalia
M.
,
Saratov State University
,
Saratov, Russia
,
RomanovaNM@info.sgu.ru
Key words: 
involvement, criminal activity, anomy, self-involvement, criminal subculture
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Journal issue: 
Volume 4, 
стр. 49
Text in pdf: 
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