DYSFUNCTIONAL AND SOCIO-PATHOLOGICAL PHENOMENA OF AN INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER IN THE POLICE. ANALYSIS OF THE SUBJECT MATTER

The Police, as a social institution, is not free of various types of behavior and socially disadvantageous phenomena. Institutional pathology is one of such phenomena, being a kind of irregularity in the functioning and the operation of social institutions, as well as a disharmony between the norms or the principles that should be implemented but are not, the power hierarchy and the workplace subordination, between the social expectations and the actual state of things. The subject of analysis are selected dysfunctional behaviors and socio-pathological phenomena of an institutional nature, existing in the police environment. The study discusses such issues as: corruption and the use of one’s position for private needs.