Authors: Kozhevnikov V. V.
Citation: Kozhevnikov V. V. On the Evaluative Function of the Legal Consciousness and Personal Legal Activity in Law Enforcement. Psychopedagogy in Law Enforcement. No 1(72). 2018. Pp. 17–20. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-11003.
Для цитирования: Кожевников В. В. Оценочная функция правосознания и правовая активность личности в правоохранительной сфере // Психопедагогика в правоохранительных органах. 2018. № 1(72). С. 17–20. DOI: 10.24411/1999-6241-2018-11003.
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Abstract
Evaluative function of legal consciousness is that it is used to estimate certain life circumstances as legally important. This function of legal consciousness covers four types of evaluation: 1) evaluation of positive law, its norms, institutions, principles; 2) estimate of behaviour in legal sphere of people around; 3) the person’s estimate of their own behaviour in legal sphere; 4) evaluation of law enforcement agencies’ work. Legal activity is considered, on the one hand, as a component of the personal legal culture, and, on the other – as one of the factors influencing legal activity of corresponding persons in different forms. The mentioned results of sociological studies provide a vision of the level of the citizens’ active legal position in law enforcement largely determined by the appropriate agencies’ authority and public’s trust to them.
Keywords: legal consciousness, evaluative function, law enforcement agencies, police activity, legal activity, sociological research.
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Submitted: 05.07.2017