Socio-demographic Characteristics of Convicted Migrants and their Influence on the Commission of Crimes (based on the materials of a theoretical and empirical study)

Introduction: the article examines the socio-demographic characteristics of convicted migrants in places of deprivation of liberty based on the materials of a theoretical and empirical study, and reveals their influence on the commission of crimes. Objective: based on the study of the socio-demographic characteristics of convicted migrants in places of deprivation of liberty, to consider their socio-demographic portrait. Methods: analysis of scientific sources, questionnaires, survey, analysis of personal files. Results: the empirical study was conducted in April 2025 in the general regime penal colony of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Ryazan Region. It involved 95 convicted migrants, including those held in a penal colony-settlement. As a result of the questionnaire and analysis of personal files of convicted migrants in places of deprivation of liberty, their socio-demographic characteristics were identified: citizenship, age, marital status, presence of children, level and specialties of education, religion, place of birth and residence, reasons for migration, place of work. In the course of the theoretical and empirical study, it was established that these characteristics influence the commission of crimes. Conclusions: analysis of the data obtained showed that convicted migrants are men aged 30 to 50 years (the average age at which crimes are committed is 37.5 years) and are mostly married but have no children. They have an average level of education. In places of imprisonment, they have mastered mainly technical specialties; they are natives of cities and villages in their countries and have mainly low-paid jobs in Moscow and the Moscow region.