Opportunities and Problems of Using Information from Digital Media in a Comprehensive Forensic Psychological and Psychiatric Examination of Minors Accused of Illegal Drug Distribution

The article considers the specifics of the analysis of information from digital media during the conduct of the comprehensive forensic psychological and psychiatric examination of minors accused of illegal drug distribution. The features of the involvement of minors in illegal activities for the distribution of psychoactive substances, the psychological mechanisms of such socially dangerous actions by adolescents are described. Analysis of the products of the subject’s activities in the form of his communicative activity recorded on the Internet, an account in a social network is one of the methods that allows to compose or supplement a holistic psychological portrait of the subject and answer the questions of the judicial and investigative authorities regarding his individual psychological characteristics. When planning and implementing criminal actions directly on the Internet, the task of an expert psychologist is among other things to reconstruct the situation of an offense and highlight regulatory components in the behavior of its participants, which include goal setting, the level of assessment and prediction of the consequences of actions, planning, control and correction actions aimed at achieving illegal goals.

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