Tarasevich I.B. The criteria of adequacy of the language of law in an everyday legal conscience of police officers

Abstract: The subject of the research includes the philosophical problems of the theory and logic of legal conscience and the determination of the quality of law in the police work. The article considers the problem of the language of law correspondence with the requirements of an everyday legal conscience. The author proves that the everyday legal conscience often endows the language of law with the features of the common language thus hampering the provision of its adequacy. The main attention is paid to the development of methodology of the lawmaking process quality improvement in the current socio-economic circumstances. The author carries out the theoretical and methodological analysis of the concepts of development of right and law. The article demonstrates the author’s positions on the interpretation and the legal ideology. The methodology of the study is based on the recent achievements of epistemology. The author applies general philosophical and theoretical methods (dialectics, the systems method, analysis, synthesis, analogy, deduction, observation and modeling), traditional legal methods (formal logical) and the methods of special sociological research (statistical, expert assessments, etc.). The author concludes that recently, in order to provide legality in the sphere of internal affairs, it is necessary to improve the forms and methods of lawmaking process. The main contribution of the author is the conclusion about the need for the development of the theory and logic of police officers’ legal conscience. The novelty of the study lies in the suggestions for the development of the forms and methods of the lawmaking process and the creation of legal and organizational guarantees of legality in Russia. 

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