V nastoyashchee vremya bol"shinstvo otechestvennykh kriminologov edinodushny v tom, chto psikhicheskie anomalii okazyvayut sushchestvennoe vliyanie na prestupnoe povedenie, a znachit, i na prestupnost" v tselom. V sbornike statey avtorom provoditsya sravnitel"nyy analiz psikhologicheskikh osobennostey lits, sovershivshikh prestupleniya s psikhicheskimi otkloneniyami, ne isklyuchayushchimi vmenyaemosti i lits, ne imeyushchikh otkloneniya psikhiatricheskogo statusa na osnove psikhologicheskikh testov Leopol"da Zondi i Maksa Lyushera. Rassmatrivaetsya tipologiya prestupnikov ukazannoy kategorii, voprosy preduprezhdeniya prestupnosti, a takzhe vzaimosvyaz" biologicheskikh i sotsial"nyy faktorov v lichnosti prestupnika.