Law Enforcement and Justice Administration
Vladimir Sergevnin, Ph.D., Professor
Stipes Hall 403L
Phone: 309/298-2276
E-mail: VA-Sergevnin@wiu.edu
Prof. Sergevnin’s teaching, research, and speaking activities encompass law enforcement, criminology, management, terrorism, juvenile justice, security, and ethical issues. He has lectured in eight countries, including to law enforcement executives at Police Staff College at Bramshill (UK), to police leadership at Vancouver (Canada), to Directors of Police Schools of Central and Eastern Europe (Messina, Italy), to Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre and UN Office on Drugs and Crime (Almaty, Kazakhstan), to Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), to police professionals in Shanghai (China) and the Russian Federation, among others.
Prof. Sergevnin’s professional experience includes operational, executive, teaching and training positions in the United States and abroad, including the Russian Federation. He served as a sergeant in the Soviet Army in East Germany, went through ranks in Russian federal police as patrol shift commander, as undercover unit commander during 1980 Olympic games in Moscow, Crowd Control Task Force commander (1985), internal affairs Battalion Deputy Commander during ethnic clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1988) and protecting democracy during a coup de’tat in Moscow (1993). Professor Sergevnin chaired Department of Humanitarian Sciences at Vladimir Juridical University, Russia. Prof. Sergevnin is a retired police Colonel.
Since 1999, Prof. Sergevnin worked as a Visiting Research Scholar at Police Training Institute (PTI, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), as a Director of Illinois Police Corps Academy (WIU), as an Editor of the Law Enforcement Executive Forum (Illinois Law Enforcement Executive Institute, ILETSB).
Prof. Sergevnin has authored and co-authored several books, including: International experience of law enforcement agencies (1997, Russia), Police staffing in the USA (2000, Russia), Police of the USA: comparative legal analysis (2002, Russia), Critical issues in police discipline: Case studies (USA, Springfield, 2005), Professional training of the law enforcement personnel in the USA and Ukraine: Comparative legal analysis (2006,Ukraine), Police Engagement with Persons with Mental Illness (USA, Springfield, 2007), among others. His numerous (over one hundred and fifty) peer-reviewed articles on law enforcement, human trafficking, school security, terrorism, use of force and other related issues have appeared nationally and internationally.
Prof. Sergevnin has been interviewed by domestic and international media, such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Russian and Canadian newspapers and TV stations. Prof. Sergevnin is on the Editorial Boards of seven law enforcement and legal peer-reviewed journals.
Prof. Sergevnin earned Ph.D. in history degree from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow Institute of National Economy - 1987).
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