Abstract
In the terms of globalization of modern society jurisprudence faces the goal of searching of categories fully reflected these processes and challenges. The notions “legal system” and “legal life” highlight among such categories. They compete with each other in some ways. But it is necessary to distinguish them because they have different senses. Legal system is directed to the organizing of legal life of society while legal life contains the sources (roots) of development of legal system. Besides legal life unlike legal system includes all legal phenomenons — both positive and negative (including criminality) that should be searched in complex. So, substantial analysis of legal life of society is the next step in the development of jurisprudence (first of all, theory of law) not only from formal-legal but also from cultural positions. It demands applying of necessary methodological recourses. Such approach gives a possibility to analyze positive (lawful) and negative (unlawful) elements of legal life in their interaction and transforming negative part into negative (for example, processes of criminalization) and vice versa, negative part into positive (decriminalization, legalization, pardon, ext.).
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