Legal and psychological characteristics of the subjects committing illegal actions with equipment for the manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to update the legal and psychological characteristics of the subjects of illegal actions with equipment for the manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues. The methodological basis of the article is a theoretical and applied analysis of forensic and psychological components of personality as a subject of illegal actions with equipment for the manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues. The method of content analysis of regulations, publications of scientists, as well as the possibility of active and personal, and structural and functional approaches (when outlining the positions of investigative tactics). In view of this, it is argued that the legal and psychological characteristics of the offender’s personality involves the personification of human as a socio-biological system, the properties and characteristics of which are reflected in the material environment and used in the investigation of crimes. It is also noted that most researchers (lawyers, psychologists, etc.) combine elements of the characteristics of the offender's personality into groups: social (social status, education, marital status, profession, etc.); psychological (worldview, beliefs, skills, habits, emotions, temperament, mental cognitive processes, etc.); physiological (anatomical and functional features).
 The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the generalization of the legal and psychological characteristics of the subjects of illegal actions with equipment for the manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues. The psychological mechanism of such behavior, as a rule, is personal uncertainty: there is no stable idea of oneself and similarity with a certain person, group, and social environment in general; there is a subconscious desire to isolate oneself from any penetration into one’s inner world. The lack of active social communication leads to the loss of pre-existing social roles.
 Conclusions. The criminals of this category are characterized by certain individualized indicators (in particular, insufficient social adaptation; certain level of criminalization of the subject in the field of drug trafficking; significant changes in the motivational and needs sphere of the individual), which influence the construction of the mechanism of illegal actions, psychotropic substances and their analogues.
 Isolation of the most characteristic socio-demographic and individual-psychological features allows to correctly interpreting the available information about the subjects of illegal actions with equipment for the manufacture of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their analogues, primarily by preventing, detecting and investigating similar illegal actions, solving other law enforcement tasks, etc.