TYPOLOGY OF CRIMINAL-EXECUTIVE, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF TERRORIST CRIMES
Applied relevance of legal psychology in operational and investigative activities is becoming increasingly urgent. The practice of operational and investigative activities related to terrorist acts shows that there are occasions when a terrorist act leaves behind minimum material evidence. In such a situation operational employees of power structures can benefit from psychological knowledge obtained during research. In case of complete absence of any information about the offender even approximate characteristics of a suspect are very important. To generalize these characteristics it was necessary to use data obtained by the analysis of court decisions and the personal files of convicted persons, the results of using psycho-diagnostic methods, as well as author’s questionnaires and checklists. The article presents the generalization of the results of psychological, socio-demographic and penal characteristics of persons convicted of terrorist crimes. This allows to determine a generalized «portrait» of a perpetrator of a terrorist act. For the first time in the national penitentiary practice, empirical data on every person who was convicted of terrorist activity and endures the punishment have been collected. Previously such information was partially collected only in certain regions, where convicts serve their sentences in this category.