PROJECTIVE PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES IN IDENTIFICATION OF MOTIVES FOR JUVENILE PROPERTY CRIMES

Abstract

The article describes the meaning and peculiarities of the procedure of detection motive of property crime, committed by minors. It features the theoretical substantiation of the use of the projective method that lies in the basis of the identification method revealing the motives of the unlawful property behavior among minors. The paper describes a complex format application of the interpretive and additive techniques of this method, which can most accurately diagnose these motives. The paper represents the results of approbation practice of the psychodiagnostic method in relation to minors, who have committed property crimes. The results showed that adolescent offenders аt the time of theft seek to meet not only mercenary needs, but also to increase self-esteem, establish themselves in society, needs for various kinds of game emotions, need for a sense of security and revenge, needs for delivering joy and helping relatives. The obtained information allows one, already at this stage, to carry out preventive work with juvenile offenders, taking into account the presence and intensity of individual motives of unlawful acts and individual needs of minors.

Keywords

• juvenile offender
• projective method of psychodiagnostics
• motive of crime
• prevention of juvenile criminality
• needs of minors