UNDERSTANDING OF THE CATEGORY OF CRIME BY STUDENTS IN THE COURSE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE

The article analyzes scientific sources aimed at researching the category of crime. The concept of crime is considered in the polyscientific aspect and in the segment of fiction. It was determined that the category of crime is correlated in fiction from different positions, has certain directions and is subject to various classifications. The views of foreign writers regarding the category of crime are singled out. It has been found that the author's simulation of a crime can be the fundamental plot of an artistic work, or one of the directions of the plot, its internal source of content, or only its psychological motive. Attention is focused on English novels by Ch. Dickens and J. Sуmons. Based on the analysis of the novels “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chezlewith”, “The Adventures of Oliver Twist” and “The Color of Murder”, the conditions of the realities of the crime were highlighted, namely: creating a basis for determining the reasons for the criminal behavior of the characters in the works; modeling of the ontological slice of crimes; public condemnation or approval of the criminal behavior of the characters; the author`s artistic modeling of the crime in the analyzed literary works. It was concluded that one of the options for understanding the category of crime in foreign fiction is to find out in the analyzed novels the reasons for committing the crime; consideration of modeling by authors of various types of criminal characters from thieves to murderers; disclosure of various types of convictions or punishments for the crime committed by them; selection of author's techniques of artistic modeling of the criminal world.