Legusha S. Essence, functions and mechanism of legal upbringing of students of higher educational institutions of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

In the dissertation the complex research of problem of essence, functions and mechanism of legal upbringing of students of higher educational institutions of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was made, the concept of legal upbringing, its aim and tasks were defined, its differentiation is realized, fundamental unity of educational, upbringing and developing character of studies was exposed; general and special-professional principles, which should be used in legal educational work with this category of people were formulated; the analysis of specificity of means, forms and methods of legal upbringing of students was made, criterions of efficiency of legal upbringing of students including activity in urgent situations were formulated.