The problem of drug addiction is a global one for society, since the essential sign is more socioeconomic than medical and legal, requiring the fight not with drug addicts, but with drug addiction as a phenomenon.
The article analyzes the theoretical and judicial-law enforcement activities of the Prosecutor of the Soviet Union A. Vyshinskyi, aimed at strengthening and protecting the Stalin’s totalitarian regime. In his theoretical works, Vyshynskyi criticizes the political and legal system of the capitalist countries, glorifying the genius leader Stalin. He takes an active part in the organization and preparation of many illegal actions of the Stalin’s regime, the organization of completely falsified materials in trials.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the issues of the identity of a juvenile offender.
Summarizing the above, it was stated that the study of the social nature of juvenile offenders
who commit mercenary crimes shows that the negative qualities of such persons are quite
diverse and expressed in varying degrees. At the same time, it is extremely important to
distinguish the typical features of juvenile offenders, as this will contribute to a clearer
understanding of the motivation of the criminal behavior of this group of people, and,
Building a democratic, rule of law is unthinkable without affirmation of justice, legal andmaterial protection of the individual, mutual responsibility of the individual and the state, improvementof legislation and legal culture as a whole. State-legal and national-cultural revival is possible only oncondition of respect for its own history, its philosophical and philosophical humanistic traditions, whichunderlie our mentality, determine the nature of the nation and the essence of legal culture.
The philosophical-legal analysis of co-operation, interdependence and influence of right and legalconsciousness is carried out. Investigational, that sense of justice is the companion of right, and that iswhy we can distinguish inherent to them general lines, namely: they belong to the single legal system;execute the normatively envisaged functions; characterized by a certain structure; stipulated by generalsocio-economic, political, ideological, cultural and other factors.
The article is devoted to the analysis of the concept of “organized crime”. Using the
essential features of organized crime, we can agree with the existing in the scientific literature
understanding of it as a historically conditioned, negative social phenomenon, which is a
hierarchically constructed structure that relies on created crime capital and corruption, with
the purpose of providing the needs by raising capital, laundering the latter, and gaining power.
The article is devoted to the analysis of issues of decriminalization as a method of criminal-legal policy. Summarizing that decriminalization, as a process of official recognition of the fact of the loss of a certain act of social danger and the exclusion of a norm that previously established the criminal responsibility for the said act from the Criminal Code of Ukraine, is one of the most effective methods of criminal-law policy.
The article deals with the correlation of the concepts of “right” and “justice”. The peculiarities of their application are investigated. A literary analysis of these concepts is carried out on the subject: identities; identification of differences, the establishment of regularities during their use in legal proceedings and the legal weight of each of them.
The article analyzes the theoretical and methodological foundations of the formation of the legal category “civil society”. Civil society as a philosophical and legal category is explored in two dimensions: phenomenal (practical) and abstract-conceptual. In the phenomenal context, the category is regarded as a characteristic phenomenon of the modern society, which is a living substance, which by its very nature is inflexible and in a state of permanent development.
Висвітлено методологічну ситуацію у сучасному правознавстві, основною особливістю
якої є перехід від моністичної методології до філософсько-методологічного плюралізму.