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
