№ 6 - 2012
Kozyreva P.M., Smirnov A.I.
Individual Security and the Problem of Counteracting Criminality

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.