Individual security and the problem of counteracting criminality

Kozyreva P.M.,

Dr. Sci. (Soc.), First Deputy Director of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Center for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute for Social Policy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, pkozyreva@isras.ru

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Smirnov A.I.,

Doctor of Sociology, Senior researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, smir_al@bk.ru

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Rubric: Russia today

For citation:

Kozyreva P.M., Smirnov A.I. Individual security and the problem of counteracting criminality. – Polis. Political Studies. 2012. No. 6

Abstract

Analyzed in the article are Russians’ everyday ideas about the dangers to individual security, that are conditioned by criminality situation, and about the problems of the law-administering organs’ work to counteract them. Considerable attention is paid to socio-psychological aspects of the population’s anxiety about criminal dangers, to questions of confidence for the police and for other law-administering organs.

Keywords

security of person; reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; crime; criminalization; trust; legal culture.