MOTIVATION OF INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR OF CRIMINAL AND ENFORCEMENT SERVICE EMPLOYEES

Abstract

The article examines the approaches and concepts of the mechanism of individual criminal behavior, as well as determines its composition. The issue of motive and motivational sphere of offenders of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine is considered. The classification of motives of individual criminal behavior of employees of penitentiary institutions is determined. In particular, the author refers to the general criminal motives of self-affirmation motives, which are based on personal needs for self-actualization and respect; protective motives that are universal for a significant segment of human activity, including criminal; substitution motives, which in science are usually associated with the shift of the object of influence, the transfer of action from an inaccessible object to an accessible one; and violent- pathological (sadistic), which are extremely rare and occur in some cases of abuse of power. To the official motives the author includes the so-called “ideological”, which consist in the commission of a crime by the staff of the penitentiary for some “good cause”; career growth, which are different types of motives for self-affirmation, the formation and implementation of which is associated with the field of service; and nihilistic, of which officials commit mostly official forgery or official negligence. Finally, the author attributes to mixed motives the motives of adaptation, which are based on the need for security, often combined with benefit or nihilism; motives of domination, in which there is a combination of aggressive and violent motives and the desire for self-affirmation, self-actualization; and conformist, which are based on the need to ensure social security and belonging. Also the relative types of motivation of crimes in the sphere of service activity of the personnel of penitentiary service are specified. The author came to the conclusion that the object of preventive influence at the individual level should be both motives and motivation, motivational states of personality and the purpose of individual preventive measures should be to interrupt the motivation of criminal behavior, prevent its occurrence through specific methods of personal diagnosis, departmental control and assistance. in the elimination of external objects-incentives for criminal activity.