Statistics for Моделювання процесу формування мотивації злочинної поведінки особи.Українська Русский English (UK) Legal psychology Home Become an author Contacts Issue №1 - 2014 Legal education and the learning process in higher education Theoretical and methodological problems of legal psychology and pedagogy Psychology of Law Enforcement Psychological and pedagogical problems working with delinkventamy Resume Issue №1 - 2015 Theoretical and methodological problems of juridical psychology Law education and the process of study in the higher educational establishments Psychology of law enforcement activities Psychological problems of work with delinkventamy Resume Issue №2 - 2015 Theoretical and methodological issues of legal psychology Psychological support of law enforcement Psychology of operational, investigative and judicial activities Psychological issues of work with delinquent persons Issue №1 - 2016 Theoretical and methodological issues of legal psychology Psychological support of law enforcement Law enforcement psychology and law enforcement activity Psychological issues of work with delinquent persons Issue №2 - 2016 Theoretical and methodological issues of legal psychology Psychological support of law enforcement remont-domu.ru Criminal and Psychological Characteristics of an Intentional Serial Killer Volodymyr Medvediev – Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology of the National Academy of Internal Affairs; Olena Levenets – Ph.D in Psychology, Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology of the National Academy of Internal Affairs The article deals with the problem of criminal psychological characteristics of intentional murderer, which involves the study of psychological mechanisms of illegal behavior, motivation of violent crimes, individual psychological and social factors and situational reactions of a criminal. Generalized typology should be based on three main characteristics: motivation, modus operandi, the number of malicious attempts on the life. Important psychological and legal characteristics of a serial killer are usually the similarity of motives and methods of committing crimes. Personalities of serial killer tend to be cautious, minimize risk, usually are able to role transformation, have well-developed anticipation (the ability to foresee the consequences), self-control, imagination and fantasy. They are also good at watchful planning of criminal actions and emotional indifference towards victims. In this article, the following characteristics of serial murders are described: periodic updating of criminal aggression (the killer never stops on what he has committed on his own initiative); redundancy of criminal aggression (murder is necessarily accompanied by acts of violence, humiliating the victim); high mobility after committing the murder (killer quickly disappears from the crime scene as far as possible); singularity of victim («one episode» – «one victim»), committing of murder without co-participants (except the couples which has family or sexual relationships), absence of witnesses. Thus, in the basis of the criminal-psychological classification of personality of offender there are such characteristics as dominant personality, his motives, goals and modus operandi, the degree of antisocial personality and the character of antisocial orientation. Keywords: personality of offender; intentional murder; serial killer; psychological structure of a crime; value orientations of offender; motivation of violent crimes. View the full article Modeling of Person’s Criminal Behavior Motivation Formation Process