OFFENDER'S IDENTITY AND DRIVING FORCES OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR
The article considers one of the main problems of criminological science, i.e. the problem of offender's identity and the process of forming criminal behavior. The personality of an offender is described as a model of a certain social and psychological type. The author presents the structure of offender's personality and considers its own substructures that constitute a most complex system of personality. The criminological role of mental anomalies, social and psychological aspects of life experience are described. The main incentives and driving forces of criminal behavior - motivation and motives - are examined.