Relation between Moral and Legal Normativity in Workers from Legal Field

Abstract

Law enforcement specialists have an important role in society considering that their activity is based on ensuring compliance with legislation, legal norms by citizens, the defense of fundamental human rights and freedoms. Specialists in this field have a special legal consciousness – it is part of their professional training, that is, their attitude towards the law is more special than that of people who do not work in the legal field. In this respect, we have carried out a research on the attitude towards the rule of law among lawyers (specialists in the field of protection of the rules of law) in relation to the manifestation of moral normativity. In the given research, 417 participants from the legal field were involved who expressed their attitude towards the legal norm determined by legal tolerance or intolerance, as well as their opinion regarding different situations related to moral norms. Thus, we assume that moral normativity correlates positively with legal tolerance (legal realism) among specialists in the field of law enforcement. DOI: https://doi.org/10.53486/dri2023.15; UDC: 17.022.1:340; JEL: K00, K40, Z13