Abstract: The scientific article contains recommendations about the improvement of work of minors’ affairs departments of internal affairs bodies by means of correcting the departmental legislation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia including Minors’ affairs departments regulations. The author offers the measures to improve the effectiveness of interaction of minors’ affairs departments with other departments and institutions of the system of juvenile offences prevention. The research object is the set of patterns and development trends of the system of social relations emerging in the process of legal regulation and organization of the activities of minors’ affairs departments officers. The research subject is the provisions of administrative law regulating the activities of minors’ affairs departments. The author uses general and special scientific research methods, theoretical, applied and empirical methods: general philosophical, formal-legal, comparative-legal, logical and theoretical, statistical, system. The scientific novelty consists in the fact that this is an applied work aimed at detailed studying administrative-legal, organizational and methodological problems forming the content and the order of administrative activity of minors’ affairs departments. The author formulates the ways to solve the detected problems. 

Abstract: The article analyzes the current situation in outfitting official premises of juvenile justice officers and formulates recommendations about the improvement of the current situation. The research object is social relations connected with the reasons of neglect and juvenile offences and the prevention of such negative phenomena. The research subject is the set of administrative rules regulating prevention of neglect, delicts and juvenile delinquencies, the activities of subjects responsible for preventive work with minors, and the measures of prevention of anti-social phenomena among minors. The author uses general scientific and specific, theoretical, applied and empirical approaches: general philosophical, general historical, structural-functional, institutional, socio-philosophical, psychological, logical-theoretical, statistical, system, Delphi, formal-legal, historical-legal, comparative-legal approaches, method of legal interpretation and interpretation of norms of law, etc. Despite the large number of scientific works devoted to the problems of prevention of juvenile delinquencies and the ways to solve them, the issues of outfitting official premises of juvenile justice officers haven’t been studies in recent years, therefore the source base of this problem is rather poor. The author proves the need to revive juvenile delinquents’ rooms, which firstly appeared during the Second World War, gives scientific recommendations about appropriate designing of such premises, their equipping and methods of work of juvenile police officers.