Socio-psychological mechanisms of legal nihilism in the children and youth environment
The Article contains the analysis of socio-psychological mechanisms of legal nihilism. The article notes the acute relevance of the problem of modern legal nihilism. Legal nihilism considered as multicomponent socio-psychological phenomena. The conceptual approaches to the concept of socio-psychological mechanisms are analyzed. The cognitive, emotional and behavioral component of legal nihilism is considered. Socio-psychological mechanisms of legal nihilism are identified and analyzed: identification, empathy, interiorization, exteriorization, imitation, compensation, stereotyping. The positive role of the psychological mechanism of alienation in the formation of constructive manifestations of legal nihilism is shown. The article emphasizes the ambivalent essence of legal nihilism and reveals its content. The unilateral destructive-evaluative approach to the phenomenon of legal nihilism has been overcome. The factors hindering the effectiveness of socio-psychological prevention of legal nihilism are highlighted. The perspective directions of further researches of a problem of legal nihilism are outlined.