The legal responsibility concept: doctrinal approaches

In the contemporary legal responsibility there is the issue of legal responsibility, remained a contentious. This article is ana- lyzed the basis approaches towards legal responsibility understanding in the national jurisprudence. The scientists' viewpoints on this issue have been associated. The article author determines that the legal responsibility should be understood as a set of measures of public enforcement against a person who had committed an offence. It is proposed to determine the legal responsibility as an independent form of protective power law application. This function is expressed in a set of measures of public enforcement, as provided by law and applicable against an offender by competent authorities. This reason for such measures application becomes the wrongdoing, which had committed by an offender that contains all elements of an offence. The enforcement is caused offender's enduring of the negative effects of personal and property character.