Abstract

The article highlights issues related to the identification and neutralization of the causes and conditions of such a negative social phenomenon as corruption in the police department. A deep criminological analysis of the factors determining corruption in the internal affairs bodies of Russia through the prism of the concept of socio-psychological causality is given. The author considers all the variety of conditions that give rise to the selfish motivation of corrupt police officers, as well as their professional deformation against the background of existing contradictions in the social environment and deformations of moral consciousness and legal consciousness. Particular attention is paid to the personality of a criminal who commits corruption crimes in this area. The author analyzes the determinative relationship between economic, social, moral and psychological factors and the formation of the criminogenic orientation of the personality of a corrupt officer of the Internal Affairs Directorate. The moral and psychological properties of the personality of the police officer who committed corrupt behavior are considered as the main factor that determines it. At the same time, conditions are investigated that facilitate the implementation of the criminal intentions of the corrupt nature of the police officers, which in some cases also act as conditions conducive to the criminogenic orientation of their personality.

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