criminal activity

The result of theoretical psychological analysis of the criminal activity
are pleaded with the sidelines of career approach; the model of criminal
action is described.

The article presents the results of a focus group study of respondents’ submissions (university students) on the potential risks of involving a person in criminal activity in modern society. The judgments of the representatives of the target group were based on the experience of everyday life (one’s own, acquaintances and relatives) and information obtained from the mass media. The content of respondents’ social representations is structured in relation to social groups (adolescents, youth and adults) and the specific risks of accusing them of criminal activity.

Need of identification of social and psychological mechanisms of involvement of the personality locates in article in criminal activity in the conditions of anomichny Russian society; factors of expansion of areas of criminal self-realization of the personality in anomichny society are allocated; the main directions of psychological research of the identity of the criminal are described; ways of involvement in criminal activity (individual, group) are allocated; manifestations of modification of modern criminal subculture (a combination of criminal and individualistic v