Public-Police Contacts in Russia: Revisiting the Predatory Model of Policing

Please join us for the next in our Fall Lecture Series. Olga Semukhina's lecture "Public-Police Contacts in Russia: Revisiting the Predatory Model of Policing" revisits the concept of predatory policing, a term coined by Ted Gerber and Sarah Mendelson in their 2008 article "Public Experience of Police Violence and Corruption in Contemporary Russia: A Case of Predatory Policing?". The central question of the lecture is whether the predatory policing continues to be a predominant theoretical concept within the context of Russian police. The findings of this study, based on 34 semi-structured interviews with Russian police officers, suggest that while the predatory policing remains an important form of police behavior in Russia, other forms of public-police interaction has also emerged in the last ten years.

The Speaker:

Olga Semukhina is an associate professor of criminology and law studies at Marquette University. Dr. Semukhina holds LLB/LLM degrees from the Tomsk State University (Russia) and MS/PhD degrees in criminal justice from the University of Central Florida. She is the co-author of the book Understanding the Modern Russian Police which was published by CRC Press in 2013.