Egocentrism and its criminological significance
The article is the result of a scientific criminological study of the influence of egocentrism as a character trait on the behavior of a criminal. It deals with the formation of this trait in childhood and adolescence, an attempt is made to understand the role and place of this personality trait in the system of internal determining factors that contribute to the commission of crimes, and its interaction with other innate and acquired personality characteristics is studied. egocentrism is one of the most common characteristics of the personality of a criminal, it occupies a leading place in the structure of its individual psychological characteristics, and, accumulating other immoral features around itself, it is tightly included in the system of internal determinants of criminal behavior. The article analyzes the influence of egocentrism on the needs of a person, the motivation of his actions, the choice of ways to satisfy his needs, the features of pre-criminal, criminal and post-criminal behavior. In addition, the paper studies the issues of the possibility of correcting the trait in question in order to prevent socially dangerous activity of the individual. The results of this study, presented in the article, can be useful for a better understanding of the internal psychological determinants of crimes in order to detect, investigate, predict and prevent crimes.