The notions "prevention", "precautions" and "counteraction" in legal discourse
The article considers the problems concerning the terminological conceptual field connected with the counteraction against criminal acts (prevention, precautions, etc.). Based on the data from linguistic and legal dictionaries of modern Russian, as well as on the analysis of legal literature concerning the use of the above mentioned notions the authors dwell on their good use taking into account the individual lexical meaning. Moreover, the notions ‘prevention’, ‘precautions’, and ‘counteraction’, etc. are synonyms and in the process of legal communication can be used as equal and stylistically coloured.