Legal consciousness of modern students: moral and psychological aspect
The article examines the moral and psychological aspect of the legal consciousness of modern students. It is shown that legal consciousness - as a complex of mental formation, including almost all components of the human psyche, having a multifaceted and ambiguous content, is of a moral and psychological nature. The specifics of legal consciousness is that it perceives and then reproduces life realities through the prism of fair, righteous, free, and requires not only the establishment of generally binding norms of behavior, but also is the only bridge between a person and law, which ensures the perception of legal norms, as models of the necessary behavior of people. On a sample of 300 respondents, it was found out that the legal consciousness of modern students is undeveloped, unstable and is either at the level of law obedience or at the level of legal support, when laws are followed out of fear of punishment and for rational reasons. With a low level of development of the cognitive component of legal consciousness, regardless of the type of vocational education (secondary, higher), the characteristic of a modern student is both the desire for morality and justice, and the violation and disregard of laws.