CERTAIN ISSUES OF USING A PROFILING IN SOCIAL NETWORKS FOR LEGAL REASONS

This paper considers certain issues of using a profiling in social networks for legal reasons. The paper specifies the contemporary problems of communication virtualization, shows the prospects of using the information from social networks in the investigation of the crimes. The authors give the definitions of social networks; describe the international experience of using the information from the social networks in the investigation of the crimes; search for the quickest possible ways of obtaining the information for the analysis and assessment for the psychological profiling of a person of interest. The authors consider the issues of obtaining the information on the appearance characteristics, social-psychological qualities of a person (in particular, psychological type), speech and mimic pattern, the circle of contacts, the place of leisure, etc. in the shortest possible time as these characteristics are the high-information objects of criminalistic observation. It is reasonable to use digital profiling tools to achieve the designated objective. The authors define the concepts of a profiling and digital profiling; give the V.V. Ponomarev’s classification of seven radicals’ psychological types. The paper briefly describes the hysterical radical, paranoiac radical, schizoid radical, emotive radical, anxiety radical, hyperthymic radical, and epileptoid radical. Using the example of hysterical radical, the authors considered the behavior of a person of such type in the social network; in particular, the authors determined special aspects of keeping social network pages, kinds and types of published photos, posts’ content, and activity level in the network both by time and by the coverage of other users’ pages. The authors defined certain parameters and conditions, the analysis of which can help more likely to assign a person to this psychological type and to predict his or her behavior and to select optimal communicative tools to work with him or her.