Evolutionary psychology in the scientific approach to law enforcement

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study is to focus attention on the value of the preconceptions of order, underlying law enforcement infrastructure and operations, with particular regard to the development of a culture of cooperation and the promotion of respect for human dignity.
Methodology: In order to achieve my objectives, I tried to support my findings by critically interpreting the selected sources and formulating a precondition as a point of reference.
Findings: The findings of evolutionary psychology should be used for the foundation of law enforcement science and for a scientific approach to policing. In the absence of this, the peculiarities of the operation of institutionalized policing are only partially revealed, at the same time ensuring their legitimate operating environment may be impossible in the long term. It comes from the fact that the need for security, balance and predictability of individuals and human communities can not be derived from institutionalized forms of policing, but rather the other way around. This need created the modern policing we know today as a part of the culture of cooperation, its well-known institutionalized forms. It is this need that has given rise to modern policing, in its familiar institutionalised forms, as part of the cooperative culture we know today.
Value: Police science can start from the institutionalized forms of policing as givens, when creating more efficient operating conditions for it, at the same time, it must deal with the point of view of evolutionary psychology, if it tries to create its acceptance in the long term.