Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev is an outstanding Russian psychiatrist, neurologist, psychologist, physiologist and morphologist, one of the founders of Russian experimental psychology. Contribution of V.M. Bekhterev's contribution to medicine is enormous. In addition to his most famous work, “The Conducting Tracts of the Spinal Cord and Brain,” the scientist created many other outstanding works, including being one of the first to study issues of crime from the point of view of psychiatry. His unusual and often contradictory judgments have not lost their former relevance to this day. This publication includes the best articles by a psychiatrist on the psyche of a criminal.