Current challenges and threats of the legal culture of youth

Objective: comprehensive research of current challenges and threats of legal culture in the youth environment and proposals to improve the level of legal culture. Research methods: cognitive-analytical, comparative-legal analysis, objective truth, etc. Results: generalized mechanisms of destructive influence on the legal culture of youth, some, the most vulnerable forms of legal nihilism in the youth environment are identified and ways to improve the level of legal culture are proposed. Discussion: clarified the normative consolidation of anti-bullying, summarized the experience of educational and legal work by some state institutions, suggested ways to improve the legal education of young people to improve legal culture and combat certain manifestations of legal nihilism. Attention is focused on the need for educational activities, including on the Internet in a new interesting and accessible form for young people. Substantiated: expediency of conducting sociological research to monitor the state of legal culture of youth to quick responding to relevant trends and challenges in the field of lawful behavior of young people; the need to develop a State Strategy for Legal Education with the involvement of specialists in various fields of knowledge to form a single integrated approach to its content. We consider it expedient to introduce into the school education program the discipline «Fundamentals of Legal Culture and Information Security», which will increase the level of legal culture of young people.