The question of personality of computer criminals taking into account the nature and motivation of their criminal activities
The aim of this article is to study the personality of the individual categories of computer criminals taking into account the prevalence of existing titles. The author of this article talks about the rise of computer crime and produced damage. The bases of the proposed typology of the personality of a computer criminal are the specific features of the crime, contained in the relevant articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The certain personal characteristics of the offender reveal in the method of implementation of the criminal activities of a computer criminal. According to the results of the study the author of this article draws to the new conclusions about the features of a social portrait of the personalities who commit cybercrime. Computer criminals are distinguished by the ability to formulate the problems. It is usually characteristic of individuals with a good knowledge of programming languages. It is recognized that hackers have a self-centered character and perceive any pressure extremely sensitively. They can combine the enthusiastic romanticism with the cynicism. Refined typology of computer criminals contributes to the establishment of the true meaning and content of crime definition of the corresponding penalty and developing measures of crime prevention in the sphere of computer information.