Social-psychological and Motivating Features of Juvenile’s Criminal or Deviant Behavior

Abstract

The analysis of socio-demographic, role and socio-psychological characteristics of the offender's, including the minor`s personality, is a must for the identification of his/her criminological characteristics. The revealing of socio-psychological features of the person can be realized based on the analysis of the value system, the motivational characteristics, as well as the level of self-control, hedonistic inclinations of the personality. Based on the researches conducted by the author in the Republic of Armenia within the framework of the international scientific project ISRD-3, correlations between deviant behavior and the level of self-control, as well as the hedonistic inclinations of a minor, were revealed. The author reveals the main psychological factors underlying the deviant or criminal behavior of children in the RA.