Personality as an Object of Investigative Criminology
The paper examines personal identity as an object of investigative criminology. The authors believe that the objectives of investigative prevention of crime require not only the investigative analysis of the personality of a real, actual offender, but also an offender in the making, regardless if that person has already been prosecuted or not. It is for this reason that investigative criminology should be obviously primarily concerned with people with a shadow criminal past and, especially, present, who, due to the anti-social character of their personality, pose a high danger to the society but remain unpunished. Thus, the objects of such a criminological study are all the persons included in the materials of investigative departments that present an investigative interest, and, first of all, those traditionally classified in criminology as pre-criminal and criminal personality types. The possibility of investigative analysis of this type of personality is based on the fact that its criminal potential, i.e. the ability or inclination to commit a crime, does not emerge suddenly, but is rather formed by certain stages. The authors present a classification of persons who should be the objects of investigative analysis; these are broken into three groups: potential offenders; potential crime victims; persons, directly or indirectly included in the criminal and criminogenic environment. In conclusion, the authors present a detailed list of persons that should be objects of investigative analysis with the purpose of future preventative influence; they are denoted by a general term «persons that pose investigative interest». The paper includes a number of recommendations on their identification and further work with them, primarily, in incarceration.