CRIMINOLOGICAL PERSONAL TRAITS OF AN OFFENDER

This article considers particular aspects of criminological personal traits of an offender. The author draws attention to the fact that in most countries of the world, including Ukraine, there is an exacerbation of the problem of domestic violence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantine and isolation. Therefore, analysis of some particular aspects of the criminological personality traits of an offender is an urgent issue. In this article, the typical personal features of offenders were identified. The author classified people committing domestic violence by gender, age and educational level. The study identified negative traits of character that are common to the individuals committing domestic violence. The research of criminal law features that characterize the personality of an offender showed that the offender commits most of all illegal acts from this category individually. At the same time, most of the people who commit domestic violence have previous criminal experience and a criminal record. The analysis of socio-psychological characteristics of offenders revealed that latter tend to act in a socially dangerous way. It should be noted, that unfriendly relations become the most frequent motives for domestic violence. The analysis of the social role of people committing domestic violence allowed concluding that the latter tend to separate themselves from positively oriented social groups. They tend to perform negative social roles and functions, causing violations or deliberate disregard for legal norms, labour, family and other responsibilities. In the article, there is a classification of the different types of the offender's personality by moral and psychological traits of the person. The findings of the research provide a typical criminological portrait of a person who commits domestic violence and outline the prospects for further research of this issue.