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The article is devoted to investigating criminals personality, identifying and analyzing specific deformations and other features of the personality that have led to committing a crime. It gives accent to primary importance of moral and psychological characteristics in studying the criminals personality. It offers a comparative analysis of these indicators with reference to the personalities of careless, juvenile, and environmental criminals. It identifies presence of fundamental differences in the moral and psychological characteristics of the individuals under consideration. Meanwhile, in terms of the moral and psychological aspect, it is possible to identify the worldview factors, the value orientations, the moral and ethical purposefulness, life aspirations of the personality. Psychological features are actively involved in formation of the personalitys moral image and determine the basic motives of its behavior. In other words, in each specific case the personality itself predetermines the choice of socially dangerous behavior, which, of course, depends on the personal characteristics of the individual, which are formed during his/her life. Thus, through the prism of the individual characteristics of the criminals personality there reveals a set of causes and conditions that contribute to its illegal behavior.