Personality characteristics of adolescents with different types of criminal infection

the study of juvenile delinquency and related factors is an urgent task, contributing not only to understanding the causes of criminal behavior, but also to the development of effective prevention and intervention strategies. Such a factor as the "criminal infection" of adolescents can be an indicator of increased criminal risk. The study of personal factors that determine the increase in the level of criminal infection provides a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of involving adolescents in the criminal environment. The work analyzed the accentuations of the character and strength of the nervous system in adolescents with different types and levels of severity of criminal infection. Results. Two statistically significant individual typological parameters were identified among adolescents with a different component of criminal infection. That is, among adolescents with a high and medium level of the behavioral component of criminal infection, there is an accentuation of the nature of the excitable type. Further, among the average and above average level of general criminal infection, there is an excitable, exalted and cyclothymic accentuation of character. The following distributions of adolescents according to the level of the behavioral component of criminal infection and the strength of the nervous system are not statistically confirmed, but there is a tendency that adolescents with a high level of criminal infection show the strength of the nervous system only at a level below the average. Also, adolescents with a high level of criminal infection were diagnosed with the only type of exalted accentuation. Conclusion. Studying the personality traits of adolescents with different types and levels of criminal infection plays a key role in identifying vulnerable groups of adolescents and offering them targeted assistance, which can reduce the likelihood of committing crimes. It also indicates the research perspective, which includes increasing the sample and tracking changes in the data obtained.

personality traits of adolescents, criminal infection, character accentuations, criminal subculture, adolescence