Savchenko I. A., Snegireva L. A., Ustinkin S. V. the Origins of corruption in the empirical dimension. Legal science and practice: Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Russian interior Ministry, 2019, No. 2, pp. 157-163. Savchenko I. A., Snegireva L. A., Ustinkin S. V. the Origins of corruption in the empirical dimension. Legal science and practice: Bulletin of the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Russian interior Ministry, 2019, No. 2, pp. 157-163.ISSN 2078-5356DOI нетPosted on site: 27.04.20Текст статьи/выпуска на сайте журнала URL: https://xn--80az.xn--b1aew.xn--p1ai/Nauka/Vestnik_Nizhegorodskoj_akademii_MVD_Ross/Vipuski_zhurnala/2019-%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4 (дата обращения 27.04.2020)Abstracthe purpose of the article is a comparative analysis of the understanding of the sources of corruption by different groups of the population. Identified and analyzed the similarities and differences in the perception of the problem of corruption by law enforcement officers and persons of civil professions, cadets of educational institutions of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia and University students. An attempt of scientific explanation of the revealed contradictions is made.