Psychological characteristics of individual and social legal consciousness: structural and content aspect

The article examines the phenomena of individual sense of justice as an internal determinant of legally significant behavior - lawful or delinquent. A complex of its main components (properties), which are the most significant in the determination of the legal orientation of social behavior, is presented. Their substantive characteristics are stated, reflecting the opposite tendencies - law-abiding and illegal orientation of legal consciousness. The main spheres of legally significant behavior are noted, which cover the content of legal consciousness. Based on the structure of individual legal consciousness, the phenomenology of public legal consciousness is considered as an internal determinant of the rule of law in society and its opposite phenomenon - crime. Attention is paid to the reflection of public legal consciousness in the individual, which has a formative influence and in which one of the mechanisms of integration of individual psychological phenomena into social and psychological ones is manifested. Prospects for applied research of this problem are outlined.