Lay Thinking about ‘Sexual Murderer’ and ‘Victim’ in Groups of Young Russian Men and Women

The questions about the offender’s personality, as well as about the reasons of criminal activity are amongst the most interesting ones in legal psychology. The psychological typology of the criminal personality is a method to analyse the criminal behaviour. The typology should be based on the general and stable characteristics of offenders, and these characteristics need to be detectable in the offender’s behaviour. The problem of serial murderers typology and of psychological profiling of them is in the focus of many studies in the fields of legal and psychological knowledge (Godwin, 2001; Logunova, 2014; Logunova, Demidova, & Dvoryanchikov, 2012). The results of these studies have implications for the practice of law enforcement.