Professional and moral deformation of identity of the department of internal affairs employee as deviantogenic factor

The article is devoted to the analysis of professional deformation of the identity of an employee of the Department of Internal Affairs as to one of the factors of deviant behavior of this category of people. The author presents the groups of factors determining professional destruction as well as classification of professional destruction levels. The emphasis is made on the fact that the service forms such values, stereotypes and properties of mentality that are essentially distinct from other kinds of activity.