COGNITIVE COMPONENT OF LEGAL AWARENESS IN LEARNERSстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация:Legal concepts are one of the components of legal awareness and formed in the course of legal
socialization as well as other elements of legal awareness. To date, psychological research devoted to the problems of legal socialization and legal awareness mainly focuses on the study of attitudes to laws or crimes, or individual components of legal awareness. Legal awareness is systemic, so it is important to know not only the specifics of each component individually, but also how its individual components are correlated, which of them is the main one in structure.
The present study examines the relationship between the cognitive component of the learner’s legal
awareness and his ability to use this cognitive component in the analysis of economic offences (in the case study). Two main hypotheses gave been verified. There are significant relationships: between the developmental level of learners' concepts about economic offences and the developmental level of learners’ ability to identify significant signs of unlawful situations; & between the developmental of learners' concepts about economic offences and the developmental level of learners’ ability to apply the rule of logical inference when recognizing economic offences.
The verification of the both hypotheses reveals statistically significant positive results. These
findings enable us to assume that the more developed legal concepts are, the more correctly learners apply the knowledge of the relevant laws to recognize situations with unlawful behaviour.
The obtained results can be taken into account in developing training programs to increase the legal
awareness of people.