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The monograph deals with a wide range of issues related to determining and establishing the motive, purpose and emotional state of a person in the context of social properties and qualities of a person regulating the substantive side of behaviour and manifested in specific actions. Possessing consciousness and will, the subject of a criminal offence chooses the form and means of satisfying his/her needs and interests, including through committing a criminal offence. In turn, behaviour expresses the moral and legal positions of a person, their social essence. The modern theory of criminal law uses psychological concepts and categories in determining the consciousness, will of the subject of a criminal offence, guilt, motive, purpose and emotional state. Consideration of psychological issues in criminal law is a means of explaining certain criminal law concepts and disclosing them on a psychological basis. This allows to establish the elements and signs of a criminal offence with greater completeness and validity, to qualify the offence.

Addressed to students, cadets, postgraduates, adjuncts, teachers of higher educational institutions of legal direction, law enforcement officers, scholars and anyone interested in criminal law.