Classifications of Personalities of Objects of Criminal Intelligence and Surveillance Control Performed by Internal Affairs Agencies

The article studies various approaches to the classification of persons prone to commit crimes being objects of criminal intelligence and surveillance control performed by internal affairs agencies. It is indicated that this classification can be based on a number of grounds; the key ones are the degree of social danger, criminal potential and stability of the antisocial attitude. Each category of objects of criminal intelligence and surveillance control performed by internal affairs agencies stipulates a different scope and character of applied special forces, means and methods provided for in the law.