Marusiak T. Demonstration of deformation of legal consciousness among modern Ukrainian youth.

Object: Legal consciousness of modern Ukrainian youth. Aim: To develop a conceptual model of legal consciousness deformation among modern Ukrainian youth and empirical study of that social and cultural phenomenon based on the author's model. Methods of research: Analysis and synthesis, typology method, comparative analysis method, survey method, correlation analysis, design of additive indices and cluster analysis. Theoretical and practical results: complex classification of deformation of legal consciousness types were examined; it was supposed a set of theoretical principles that give the possibility to differentiate normal and deformed condition of legal consciousness; characteristics and features of legal consciousness of modern Ukrainian youth in the European and cross-national context were specified, the author developed a toolkit of empirical research for displaying legal consciousness deformation. Novelty: development of a conceptual model of legal consciousness deformation. Degree of implementation: The main positions of the research work are used in teaching courses on sociology of law and criminal sociology for students at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.