selfish motive

The article is devoted to the study of the modern state of criminal law protection mechanism of the totalitarian religious movements or sects in Ukraine. The attention is focused on the system of special criminal law norms indicating what kind of action participants totalitarian religious movements or sects are criminal and what punishments should apply.

In the article the psychological and social economic substructure individual offender. It was found that the most common personality traits of economic criminal shown at the psychological substructure. Attention is focused on moral deformity individual criminal economic, manifested in careerism, authoritarian management style, and selfish consumer's attitude to his post.