Social-typological description of the personality of a juvenile criminal sentenced to correctional works

In the criminological literature there is no unity ofopinions among scientists concerning the criminological characteristic of the persons committing crimes. Some researchers consider thatthe specified description should include three blocks of signs: social-typological, social-role, moral-psychological; others - socialdemographic,moral-psychological, biological and criminal-legal signs; the third pay attention to one concrete sign - alienation from thesociety without considering others; A.I. Dolgova allocates five blocks of signs giving the criminological description of the personality ofthe criminal: social-demographic, criminal-legal, social displays in real spheres of ability to live, moral properties, physical (biological)characteristics. Social-typological signs of the personality of a juvenile criminal include social-demographic signs of the personality(sex, age, occupation, place of residence, etc.). Social-demographic properties of the criminals personality are not crime-conducive. Butthey are connected with the conditions of formation of the personality and its ability to live, cooperate with others, with requirementsand motivation, with social roles of the person. According to the sexual sign the minors sentenced to correctional works are subdividedinto males and females. By the results of our research, the majority of the minors condemned to correctional works are males (78.7% inTomsk region, 96.8% in Kemerovo region, and 85.5% in Novosibirsk region). The age of the minors sentenced to correctional works inour research is as follows. Criminal activity is in a greater degree characteristic for 16-17 y.o. persons (97.38% in Kemerovo region in2003-2009, 96.78% in Tomsk region). Education plays an important role in the formation of socially positive personal qualities, substantiallydefining intellectual and cultural levels of the person. High educational level in the basis is an anti-criminal factor. It favoursthe expansion of the circle of useful interests, consciousness and responsibility of the person, its self-affirmation and by that promotesthe prevention of involving of the person in criminal activity. In many respects the level of education defines the character of sociallyuseful employment of minors condemned to correctional works. So, at the moment of registration in the correctional inspectorate 26%of minors went to schools, 17,6% - to vocational schools, 10% - to special educational institutions, 10% - worked (both officially andunofficially), 36,4% had no socially useful activity.

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