Issues of street crime are considered. It has been established that street crime is a kind of illegal social practice and is a mass destructive phenomenon. It is manifested in the commission of homogeneous socially dangerous criminally punishable acts in the free and open part of the settlement. It has been proved that the manifestations of street crime are such types of intentional criminal offenses as: murder, bodily injury, beatings and murders, rape, theft, robbery, burglary, fraud.

The article is devoted to the principles of design and application of criteria of scientific publications in the field of modern psychology. Particularly, the author discusses the problems of theoretical bases of empirical studies, the use of methodological principles, semantic and terminological problems, and also the purpose and scientific-applied direction of the scientific bulletin "Modern Psychology".