Petrov V.E., Abasov M.M. Comparative psychological analysis of methods of professional discipline maintenance among the employees of the Internal Affairs bodies

Abstract: The article focuses on the problems of legal and organizational measures of professional discipline provision in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. The authors carry out a theoretical-legal analysis of the concepts of socio-legal regulation of professional discipline provision. The article describes the authors' positions about the concept of psychological maintenance of professional discipline. The main attention is paid to the development of methods and methodology of administrative and legal measures of discipline strengthening. In addition, the article presents a theoretical and legal analysis of concepts of professional discipline psychology development in modern conditions. The article describes the authors' positions concerning the interpretation and legal regulation of these categories. The methodology of the research is based on the recent achievements of epistemology. The authors apply the general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems  method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation, modeling), the traditional legal methods (formal logic), and the methods used in special sociological researches (the statistical method, expert evaluations, etc.).The authors come to the conclusion about the development of capabilities of various methods of professional discipline maintenance among police officers. The authors study the prevention of professional discipline violations by traffic officers in order to carry out a psychological analysis of efficiency of different measures of influence. Among the effective measures the authors enumerate control, persuasion, coercion (punishment), encouragement, example, and training. The authors propose the methods for police officers' work improvement. The novelty of the research lies in the proposals for the development of forms and methods of professional discipline maintenance, and the creation of legal and institutional guarantees of legality in the sphere of the Interior.

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