Volodymyr Medvediev

Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology at the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Doctor of Psychological Sciences. Volodymyr Stepanovych is the developer of the legal-psychological concept of professional deformation of law enforcement officers, the concept of professional-psychological training of law enforcement personnel, and the fundamentals of the psychological theory of criminal activity.

He is one of the organizers of the psychological service in penitentiary institutions (1991), law enforcement agencies of Ukraine (1997), and the training of practical psychologists for these departments. In 1999, V.S. Medvediev became the first in Ukraine to defend a doctoral dissertation in the specialty of “legal psychology” on the topic of “Psychology of Professional Deformation of Law Enforcement Personnel.” The professor’s title was awarded in 2004.

V.S. Medvediev is a member of several specialized academic councils, including being a permanent member since its founding (1998) of the first specialized academic council on legal psychology at the National Academy of Internal Affairs, and a member of the coordinating council of the Higher Attestation Commission of Ukraine in psychological and pedagogical sciences. He is also a member of the editorial board of the bulletin “Legal Psychology.” His main directions of scientific research include the psychology of criminality, historiography of domestic legal psychology, and the psychology of law enforcement subjects.