Theoretical, methodological and sectoral aspects of understanding guilt as a legal category

Introduction : the article analyses the scientific understanding of guilt as a legal category; investigates the peculiarities of the formation of the concept of guilt in philosophical and legal thought at different stages of state-legal development; reveals the specificity of scientific approaches to the understanding of guilt in the formation and development of psychology; identifies the stages of modification of theoretical and legal approaches to the concept and construction of guilt; reflects the diversity of approaches to the concept and construction of guilt in the legal science of criminal profile; considers the legislative model of regulation of guilt in the legal science of criminal profile.