About administrative responsibility for involvement of minors in illegal public events

The relevance of the research topic is due to the increased demands of the state to improve the mechanisms for protecting the rights and legitimate interests of minors. The author considers the allocation of administrative responsibility for involving minors in unauthorized meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches or picketing as one of the guarantees of the mechanism for protecting the rights and legitimate interests of minors in practice, if these actions do not contain a criminally punishable act. The objective of the research: to analyze the legal composition of an administrative offense provided for in Part 1.1 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation and to formulate the proposals for improving this legal norm. Research methods: general logical methods of cognition (analysis and synthesis, generalization), private scientific methods (formal legal, comparative legal, conceptual analysis, analysis of literature on the subject of research). The results of the research: the problems of legal assessment of an illegal act arising from the ambiguity of interpretation in theory and practice of such concepts as “involvement” and “unauthorized public events” are revealed; the examples of the norms regulation on responsibility for involving minors in committing offenses in the administrative legislation of some neighboring countries are presented; proposals for improving the norm providing the responsibility for involving minors in unauthorized public events and committing administrative offenses are formulated.