Ruvin S. Legal protection of public morals within the scope of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine

In the dissertation, a holistic and complex scientific and theoretical study was conducted and a solution to the scientific problem was proposed regarding the peculiarities of legal protection of public morality within the scope of the activities of law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. The content of the concept of the foundations of the theory of a complex conceptual study of the legal protection of the system of public morality by instrumental tools and measures of the system of law enforcement bodies through the prism of integrative methodology is disclosed. On the basis of the comparative method, an attempt was made to draw parallels between it and the methodology of social interaction or social exchange, which are inherent in the use of measures to protect the system of public morality by the system of law enforcement agencies in the practical plane. The main directions of determining the essence of social morality in the philosophical and legal dimension of this phenomenon are analyzed, which, under such circumstances, involves the general public recognition of a certain stable system of rules of personal behavior based on a critical understanding of things and the presence of a legal justification for the peculiarities of social relations. The features of the use of means of coercion and persuasion in the process of active influence of law enforcement agencies on the subjects of public relations with the aim of protecting public morality are revealed. Thus, it was found that an important factor in understanding the features of the protection of public morals by law enforcement agencies of the state is the provision according to which social relations are regulated in order to ensure law and order and the safety of citizens on the basis of the development of a law enforcement system, the subjects of which are empowered to use legitimate coercion. In general, by influencing a person's behavior, coercion allows denial of his will. That is why the importance of the wide application of the method of persuasion under the given circumstances is actualized, and, therefore, the extraordinary significance of this method in the matter of establishing high moral and ethical standards in the mind of a person is ascertained.