Panova O. Guaranteeing Public Safety in Ukraine: Administrative and Legal Aspect

The dissertation is focused on the analysis of administrative and legal principles of ensuring public safety in Ukraine. The author has determined the essence of public safety as an object of administrative and legal defense and protection. The principles of public safety have been generalized. The legal principles of ensuring public safety have been characterized. The content of administrative and legal relations in the field of ensuring public safety has been revealed. The author has determined specific features of the activities of the higher agencies of state power as subjects of ensuring public safety. The place of law enforcement agencies in the system of subjects of ensuring public safety has been clarified. The specifics of ensuring public safety by the prosecutor’s office and courts have been characterized. The author has revealed administrative and legal powers of local self-government agencies and civil society institutions in the field of ensuring public safety. The essence of legal and organizational forms of activity in regard to ensuring public safety in Ukraine has been clarified. Administrative and tort relations in the field of ensuring public security in Ukraine have been characterized. International experience of public safety has been generalized and the possibilities of its application in Ukraine have been worked out. The system of criteria and indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of public safety in Ukraine has been worked out. The author has offered the ways for the optimization of administrative legislation in the field of ensuring public safety in Ukraine. Key words: public safety, administrative and legal principles, administrative legislation, subjects, competence, powers, administrative offenses, administrative liability, forms, methods, provision, interaction, efficiency, evaluation criteria, optimization.