THE ESSENCE AND STRUCTURE OF THE TEENAGER’S LEGAL CULTURE AS A RESULT OF SOCIAL EDUCATION AND LEGAL EDUCATION

Abstract

We present the reasons that actualize the formation of a teenager’s legal culture: the constant updating of legislation, the priority of human rights and freedoms as the supreme value in the rule of law and civil society, strengthening the enlightenment and preventive function of the court and law enforcement agencies as guarantors of human rights, interest in the law and legal institutions on the part of society, development of the preventive nature of work with the adult population. It is established that the legal education of teenagers promotes the growth of their legal culture, the main goal of legal education of adolescents is the education of respect for the rule of law. The result of the legal education of a teenager is a legal culture. We present various modern concepts of “legal culture”. Given his own interpretation of the concept of the legal culture of teena- gers as one of the types of culture, the result of a purposeful social education of teenagers, whose content is values, knowledge, lawful behavior, willingness to be guided by law in various types of socially useful activities in practice. We summarize the views of researchers on the structure of the legal culture of the individual. The main components of the legal culture of teenagers are defined: value (moral and legal values, respect for law, solution of problems in the legal field), cognitive (knowledge of regulatory and legal acts that allow to function and develop in modern society), activity (observance of the law, involvement in legal relations, in socially useful activities).