Auditoria Belgrade

Morons, thugs, and f***ers: how post-Soviet law enforcement officers classify their counterparts

Any job requires us to impose a certain set of classifications on the world around us. People become "partners" and "clients" for us, and among "clients" there are "rich" and "poor" ones. And so on, ad infinitum. Sometimes, when interaction is purely formal, our classifications are official and simple. But often they must also include some personal characteristics of the person, which we must first identify and then explain to our colleagues.

We will talk about the "groups" into which police officers, prosecutors, investigators, and others from the former Soviet Union countries divide the people they encounter. Unfortunately, before that, we will have to take a detailed look at how these very law enforcement agencies are structured. Let's see who serves in them and, inevitably, why the propagandistic (heroic) and liberal (cannibalistic) images of Russian law enforcement officers have nothing to do with reality.

🗣 Kirill Titaev is a professor of social sciences at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (FLAS) in Montenegro. He is a specialist in empirical (sociological) research on law enforcement and judicial bodies. He has worked at the European University. He has taught at Yale University.

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