Criminological analysis of the identity of the criminal committing scientific fraud

Purpose: Of the study is the identification of specific personality traits of a scientific fraud. Methodology: Used system-structural and formal-logical methods. Results: Using the gradations of the criminal's personality traits that are classical for Russian criminology, the features of the socio-demographic, moral, psychological and role-based properties of the personality of a person who plagiarizes and falsifies the results of a scientific research are determined. Given the latent nature of scientific fraud, the questionnaire conducted by the authors of the study among students and young scientists, as well as the well-known results obtained both in Russia and abroad, served as an empirical basis. Novelty/originality/value: The article has a certain scientific value, since the very statement of the question of the need to study the personality of a scientific fraud is a new direction in criminology. The results are the basis for finding the best ways to counter scientific fraud.