Personality characteristic of the offender committed crime under Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus)

Introduction. The article is devoted to the research of socio-demographic and criminallawful features of the offender committing the crime defined by Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus). The relevance of the study is due to the rapid development of transport infrastructure in present-day world (modernisation of existing and the emergence of new transport types, vehicle-to-the population ratio), changes in values in moral and spiritual sphere of the modern man, which inevitably influence the change in criminological personal characteristics of the offender committing the traffic crime. Methods. General cognition methods (analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, generalisation, description, comparison, systemic-structural method) as well as specifically scientific methods (document analysis, statistical method) were used in the research. Selected forms of statistical reporting and law enforcement practice of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus formed empirical basis of the studies. Results. The study produced a typical personal profile of the offender, committing the traffic crime, and established individual moral-psychological characteristics of persons, committing the defined offence, too. The indicated features are the basis for determinants’ research and development and implementation of traffic crime prevention package.