Psychological aspects of sense of justice phenomenon

Thesense of justice is a set of representations and feelings, opinions and emotions, estimations and sets expressing the relation of people to the law inforce. Existence of legal phenomena is inseparably linked with will and consciousness of people. Requirements of public life cannot be expressed aslegal instructions until the person understands them and uses them as the guide to action. Structurally, the sense of justice is divided into the knowledgeof the content, purposes and problems of legal instructions; the subjective attitude to the rules of law; the readiness to be guided by the rules oflaw. One should not confuse conformism as a feature of character and a voluntary, deeply conscious realization of legal requirements, understandingof their correctness and rationality. Persons characterized by the domination of the biological factor are inclined to legal behaviour owing to thefear of punishment. Fear as a behaviour determinant is characteristic for many spheres of human activity, but in the theory of sense of justice researcherstry to avoid this important component of the phenomenon of sense of justice for some reason. Persons characterized by the domination ofthe social factor are inclined to legal behaviour by force of the habit, the role stereotype as a consequence of the model of appropriate conductstrongly fixed in consciousness in the course of education. The given group acts as the most numerous, but, unfortunately, inert enough in respect ofthe attitude to legal innovations. Persons characterized by the domination of the individual-psychological factor are inclined to legal behaviourowing to the deep comprehension of correctness and necessity of the given behaviour, which is also based on the sufficient knowledge and understandingof the letter and spirit of the law. The problem is that the optimum model of sense of justice in these persons' minds is closely connectedwith the idea of justice or idea of expediency of changing of all the society within a social model aggressive enough. There are few such representatives,and they do not supervise the basic social tendencies in the stable society.

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