The Humane Motive as a Component of the Criminal Motivation of Juvenile Offenders

The article presents the results of a study of the criminal humane motive of juvenile offenders as an internal motivation aimed at bringing benefit, doing good to other people in a way prohibited by law, as well as diagnostics of other personal qualities and properties of juvenile offenders that influence the formation of a criminal humane motive. The results of comparing the data obtained with the corresponding indicators of law-abiding minors are demonstrated. As psychodiagnostic tools, a specialized author's technique for diagnosing potential motives of delinquent property behavior of minors and non-specialized methods for diagnosing general motivation are used: “Pyramid of Needs” (V. V. Skortsov), “Proverbs” (S. M. Petrova) and “Method for diagnosing the motivational structure of personality” (V. E. Milman). The results obtained are of practical importance in the development and implementation of rehabilitation and preventive programs by subjects of juvenile delinquency prevention.