Doroshenko O.M., Bocharov S.N. Retrospective characteristic of administrative-legal status of the subjects of juvenile delinquency prevention within the structure of internal affairs bodies

Abstract: The research subject is the system of administrative-legal provisions in the mechanism of legal ensuring of the activities of internal affairs bodies. The research object is social relations. The author considers the issues of juvenile delinquency prevention using the example of internal affairs bodies since the early 20th century. The theoretical importance of the considered problems consists in the specification of certain notions of administrative-legal science which helps to reveal the new elements of organization and legal provision of internal affairs bodies which haven’t been taken into account so far. The author defines the peculiarity of the police’s activities in the mechanism of juvenile delinquency prevention. The research methodology is based on the system, structural-functional and formal-logical methods. The author applies the logical-legal method. The novelty of the study lies in the author’s approach to the study of the means, forms, and limits of administrative-legal characteristic of the internal affairs bodies’ activity aimed at juvenile delinquency prevention. The author proposes a new conclusion about the character of legal prevention of juvenile delinquency by internal affairs bodies, and the impossibility to reduce it to a mere law enforcement meaning. 

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