The purpose of the article is scientific reasoning of a structure of the criminal's personality as an element of forensic characteristic of domestic violence. Methodology. The methodological basis of the research is the following methods of scientific knowledge: dialectical – for the knowledge of social and legal phenomena in their connection and development; historical and legal – to clarify the development of scientific views on concepts used in the investigation of the criminal's personality as an element of forensic characteristic; statistical – to summarize case law materials. The scientific novelty of the publication is that, for the first time, attempts have been made to identify the criminal's personality features as an element of the forensic characteristic of the crime under Art. 1261 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Conclusions. The typical features in the structure of the perpetrator of domestic violence are distinguished, namely biological (gender, age, etc.), social (place of residence, education, marital status, occupation, general level of culture, education, etc.), psychological (intelligence, temperament, emotional state, volitional sphere, presence or absence of mental deviations, etc.). Based on the analysis of judicial practice a general description of criminal's personality who commits domestic violence was formed. The subjects of this crime have common features. These are mostly male, adult, non-working secondary school students, officially unmarried (but still in family relationships with the victim)