On the evaluative function of the legal consciousness and personal legal activity in law enforcement

Evaluative function of legal consciousness is that it is used to estimate certain life circumstances as legally important. This function of legal consciousness covers four types of evaluation: 1) evaluation of positive law, its norms, institutions, principles; 2) estimate of behaviour in legal sphere of people around; 3) the person’s estimate of their own behaviour in legal sphere; 4) evaluation of law enforcement agencies’ work. Legal activity is considered, on the one hand, as a component of the personal legal culture, and, on the other - as one of the factors influencing legal activity of corresponding persons in different forms. The mentioned results of sociological studies provide a vision of the level of the citizens’ active legal position in law enforcement largely determined by the appropriate agencies’ authority and public’s trust to them.