Kotsiuba A. Psychological peculiarities of a delinquent personality in criminal groups.

The dissertation focuses on the theoretical and experimental research of delinquent personality as subject to socialization. The analysis of the theoretical and practical approaches of the problem, performed in the research, allows to determine that delinquent personalities, in particular those of the organized crime groups leaders, are dominated by an asocial orientation, which in turn is accompanied by certain abnormalities, depending on the accentuation type. The study reveals that in the structure of the psychological traits of an organized crime group leader a narcissistic radical stands out, which influences the self-regulation of the carrier's self-rating. The classification of methods of impact performed in the dissertation allows to single out the variables that have either a positive or destructive influence on the process of communicative interaction. In the structure of the latter the methods of influencing the emotional-volitional, motivational and cognitive systems, as well as those addressing the domains of consciousness and subconsciousness, have been differentiated. The study determines the fact that a certain interaction of the accentuation types exercises an additional impact on the development of asocial behavior, particularly of a passive-aggressive, paranoid, borderline and sadistic type. At the same time, the chances of schizoid and narcissistic types of behavior remain high enough, whereas the other types tend to attenuation. The mechanisms of exerting an influence on a delinquent personality are defined in the study. It is shown that psychological traits of delinquents are responsive to psychological impact, which allows to specify the usage of appropriate influence techniques aimed at correction of the delinquent's behavior.