Features of Forming Minors' Law-Abiding Behavior: A Socio-Psychological Aspect

The article gives a brief overview of methodological recommendations for improving the activities of educational institutions in the formation of minors' law-abiding behavior. The methodological recommendations have been made to the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation that carry out state administration in the field of education. The methodological recommendations are aimed at improving and developing the system to prevent juvenile delinquency in educational institutions and are intended to enhance the effectiveness of preventive work with minors. They can be the foundation for the development and improvement of programs and techniques directed towards the formation of law-abiding behavior among minors. They can serve as the basis for building systematic educational activity with the goal of forming a comprehensively developed, harmonious, independent, mature and law-abiding person. The methodological recommendations provide the content of systematic work to form law-abiding behavior of minors in educational institutions. The author has substantiated the use of a system-activity approach when organizing preventive work with minors in organizations that carry out educational activities. The features of the formation of minors' legal culture in educational organizations have been disclosed. The necessity to bring up and train children and teenagers in the unity of two educational spaces has been determined: the normative legal space and the space of formation and development of minors' personality.